<div>Ok. This is great information. I'm certain I will be back with more questions. I need to get the hardware first. On the whole, ivtv seems to enjoy better/more functionality within Myth - is that correct? Or should I entertain a V4L supported tuner. Really, the Theater 550 based tuners seem nice, in the end, it has to work.
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<div> So which is better, an ivtv supported tuner or a V4L supported tuner?</div>
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<div>Not looking for a flame fest. If the manufactures could/would release information/linux drivers this would be a non-issue.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>James<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Kristjansson</b> <<a href="mailto:danielk@cuymedia.net">danielk@cuymedia.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 08:31 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:<br>> You say your TV will only handle NTSC, so tuning a PAL signal and
<br>> recording it would not be of any help to you.<br>><br>> You need to standards convert the PAL signal in order to watch it on<br>> an NTSC set, a very different matter from simply recording it, and it<br>
> has nothing to do with the tuner card.<br><br>MythTV will do the conversion for you, you just need to configure your<br>video card to only output NTSC. Then MythTV will do the scaling from<br>PAL resolutions to NTSC and will convert the framerate on the fly.
<br>You should configure MythTV to use a deinterlacer though, kernel<br>deint is probably your best bet for watching PAL or SECAM recordings<br>on an NTSC TV. Don't use bob-deint, the result will look bad.<br><br>I don't know if MythTV can convert from NTSC to PAL without hickups,
<br>but PAL to NTSC is not a problem.<br><br>AFAIK most tuners will work with any of the common analog standards,<br>but someone on the ivtv or v4l lists can probably help with this<br>better than anyone on the MythTV mailing lists. The same model,
<br>say "PVR-250", usually has many generations which use many<br>different tuners. Some tuners are better than others.<br><br>-- Daniel<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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