New Linux PVR option

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Quoting dsr at tao.merseine.nu:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:17:45PM -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >Interesting.  I'm way close to getting *some* kinda PVR option.
> > >
> > 
> > Why not just install MythTV?  http://www.mythtv.org
> 
> Your failure to read the article has caused lack of
> comprehension.
> 
> MythTV is a software package. It needs specialized hardware to
> run on. The PVR option being discussed is exactly that kind of
> specialized hardware.

It's nothing new..  There have always been a set of Video cards that work quite
well.  I've got a bunch of Hauppauge PVR-250 cards that contain onboard mpeg
encoders.  They work quite well with MythTV using the IvyTV drivers.

So this hardware isn't anything all that special, it's just yet another option.

-derek
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