Kworld V-stream compatible with SageTV?

[mariner99]

Does anyone know whether these are compatible with SageTV. I can't figure out if they use hardware or software for capturing (let alone what chipset they use), but they are priced well!

http://www.netpcshopper.com/kwvxptv20vic.html

http://www.netpcshopper.com/kwvxpdvdmaus.html

http://www.netpcshopper.com/kwvxpdvdmaus.html

The last one seems to need a relatively slow processor, so I'm guessing hardware compression, but does anyone know for sure?

[SHS]

The first one maybe you need find out what under the hood like what MPEG encoder chip it is the other 2 most like not.

[mikbro]

KWorld's website states that these are software encoders and decoders, so I would think not.

[Narflex]

We support the KWorld DVD Maker PCI cards.

The links you've listed here we don't support those.

[mariner99]

Thanks Jeff.

I did mean to post the link to one of those PCI cards instead of the link to the USB 2 DVD maker twice!

Upon closer reading I noticed that the USB 2 DVD maker link does say it has a hardware encoder chipset. Would this be a different chipset than the PCI card version? If not would it be possible to support it like you do some of the newer Hauppauge USB models?

At just over $50 it looks like it would make an excellent second card for my PVR... (assuming the quality is ok!)

[Narflex]

I think its misleading. I don't believe that the $53 USB version has a hardware MPEG2 encoder. Mainly because no one is producing anything like that for anywhere near that price currently.

[newbie21]

What about this card?

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...A113963%3A4467

Listed here on Kworld's website:

http://www.kworld.com.tw/products/pr...883dvr-pro.htm


Its hard to tell if its a hardware or software encoder though :-/

[SHS]

No newbie21 it has Conexant CX23883 chip and a Texas Instruments Firewire chip and look like there a PCI bridge the one cover up by a heat sinker so there no telling what it could be.

[newbie21]

Oh well, I bought a PVR-250 today instead :-D

[TIC.Wounded]

OK I just recently bought a Kworld V-Stream TV-PVR 883 and I would really like to know if it's compatible with the SageTV software. I really don't understand anything about hardware/software encoder????? I have been everywhere on the SageTV site and looked everywhere for support of Kworld products but I cant find anything. I have intsalled SageTV and I keep getting different errors when I click on view in the channel Setup portion of you software. Before I updated my drivers I got Error (-12). Now that I've updated my drivers I get..."There was a Playback Error in Playback. Details: sage.Playback Exception: ERROR (-4,0x80040111): There was a problem rendering the video portion of the content for playback."

[kny3twalker]

hardware encoder means the card has a dedicated chip that converts the analogue video into digital mpeg
with software encoding, you use software and the power of your CPU to convert the analogue video into digital mpeg