[MEncoder-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

[Nico Sabbi]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:54:26AM +0100, Dieter wrote:
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>>>it has to be a pci card,
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>>There are USB tuners, Ethernet tuners and probably Firewire tuners.
>>These don't use up a valuable PCI slot.  Newer computers have fewer
>>and fewer PCI slots, due to having some PCIe slots instead.  And
>>USB/Ethernet/Firewire tuners can be used with a laptop.  If you go
>>this route you can have more than 2 tuners.
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>USB etc. probably requires a lot more cpu. I always get huge cpu load
>from using usb storage devices, and tv capture has similar or higher
>bandwidth requirements.
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you also have to consider that USB stick-tuners lack
the the tin-can and the filters therein, thus their
reception capability is seriously reduced.