[ivtv-users] Leadtek WinFast PVR2100 linux support

[Andy Walls]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 10:53 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Andy Walls <awalls at radix.net> wrote:
> >>   I am
> >> looking to setup a mythtv box in the house - and I am stuck on
> >> satellite.  The only way I can see to get hd content out of the
> >> receivers are hdmi and component.  My understanding is that no hdmi
> >> capture cards work properly under linux (hours of google - is all I
> >> have to go on for this though).  So that leaves component capture, and
> >> the leadtek pvr2100 would be the best bang for the buck (I think?).
> 
> It is probably worth noting that component capture does not
> necessarily mean HD component capture.  I suspect this card may very
> well only capture 480i/480p.
> 
> Do you know definitively that it can capture in HD?

Good point.  I'm pretty sure a CX23418 will only ever be able to capture
standard resolution using component video in.  Even if I could coax the
analog front end into an HD resolution configuration (doubtful), the
MPEG encoding engine is still expecting 720x576 as the max resolution
(PAL & SECAM).

But component video for cx18 might still be a project I undertake
sometime.

Regards,
Andy

> Devin