Recommended PC HDTV tuner cards

[kltye]

Originally Posted by jptaz

At least with the current beta of SageTV it is actually not just dumping the .ts, but is actually processing out just the specific program stream from the OTA Tuner...this does actually require some CPU time...more than just writing Raw Data. The result is that SageTV generates .mpg program stream files...thought not exactly perfectly compliant ones. BeyondTV just dumps the raw TS Stream to disk, but it requires more processing for playback. Even the TS option in SageTV is parsing out the individual program you want...for instance PBS has 2 channels in their RAW TS Stream..so SageTV only writes the one channel into a .TS stream as opposed to the whole raw stream...again not perfectly compliant.

John

So I guess this is why Sage doesn't always playback all OTA HD channels properly (i.e. smoothly) - I always thought the HD card was just dumping raw files onto the hard drive and didn't know how Sage could possibly screw that up. Now I know