Supported ATSC cards with HW mpeg encoders
I plan to get a dual ATSC tunner at some point, but as the 2250 does not seem to even be out yet and the HDHomeRun does not support NTSC, I am looking at getting a cheaper card that does suport NTSC for now. I am runing VDR and using the Nexus RGB out to a 23 year old Sony. So any HD must be down scaled anyway. AS a couple of our Digital locals are HD, this is what I want a card with NTSC for, to get the SDTV format of those channels. Cards like the pcHDTV HD-5500 while claiming to suport NTSC, do not have a HW mpeg encoder to convert the video to a format that can be sent out the Nexus video out. You would still need to set up software encoder/decoders. Problem is, the specs for ATSC tuner cards fall far short of providing this info. So what I want to know is, do any of the following cards have HW mpeg2 encoders that is suported by linux/vdr:
DVICO FusionHDTV 5 RT Lite
http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-lite.html?gclid=CJODl6T0-ZECFQovgwod0Vg_xA
KWorld ATSC 115
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260005 (they also have a 120, but I'm not finding much about linix suport for it ether)
Pinnacle PCTV HD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815144018
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Quoted 16 lines · Timothy D. Lenz
I plan to get a dual ATSC tunner at some point, but as the 2250 does not seem to even be out yet and the HDHomeRun does not support NTSC, I am looking at getting a cheaper card that does suport NTSC for now. I am runing VDR and using the Nexus RGB out to a 23 year old Sony. So any HD must be down scaled anyway. AS a couple of our Digital locals are HD, this is what I want a card with NTSC for, to get the SDTV format of those channels. Cards like the pcHDTV HD-5500 while claiming to suport NTSC, do not have a HW mpeg encoder to convert the video to a format that can be sent out the Nexus video out. You would still need to set up software encoder/decoders. Problem is, the specs for ATSC tuner cards fall far short of providing this info. So what I want to know is, do any of the following cards have HW mpeg2 encoders that is suported by linux/vdr:
DVICO FusionHDTV 5 RT Lite
http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-lite.html?gclid=CJODl6T0-ZECFQovgwod0Vg_xA
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KWorld ATSC 115
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260005 (they also have a 120, but I'm not finding much about linix suport for it ether)Pinnacle PCTV HD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815144018
None of the above have hardware mpeg encoders. A good card that I'd recommend for your needs right now is the Hauppauge HVR-1800.
This is a dual tuner combo atsc/qam / hardware mpeg encoder card. Already the ATSC/QAM support is in the 2.6.24 kernel. Stoth has the hardware mpeg encoder working in his cx23885-video tree. After some more testing and cleanups, it will eventually be merged into the master repository, hopefully in time for the 2.6.26 kernel release.
HTH,
Mike
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