[SWLUG] Aldi TV Card

[Steve Hill]

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Terry John wrote:

> The thing to bear in mind is the picture quality. If you want to burn 
> DVD's make sure it can do MPEG-2 or 4. I'm not sure which one (Perhpas 
> someone can clarify) but the point is that there are some low quality 
> cards out there which are fine for web pages or small avi's etc but not 
> really good enough for DVD's.

The cheap bt878 cards won't do hardware encoding - they give you a raw YUV 
capture of the signal so any encoding has to be done in software:  I use 
an Athlon XP 1900+ to encode 2.2Mbps MPEG4's.

Using an SVideo input will give you waaay better quality than composite or 
UHF, but obviously you're stuck with UHF if you're using analogue 
terrestrial TV.

The other options are something like the Hauppauge PVR250 cards which will 
do hardware MPEG2 encoding of an analogue signal, or get a DVB-T card 
which will give you the raw MPEG2 stream transmitted on the terrestrial 
"freeview" digital TV (so no encoding needed).

  - Steve       Jabber: steve at nexusuk.org     Web: http://www.nexusuk.org/

      Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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