Do I need a tuner?

[riverlethe]

I am currently using a TV tuner/MPEG encoder to capture from S-Video. However, I have no use for the actual tv tuners. Is there an MPEG capture card that would work with SageTV, perhaps with component input as well?

[Lucas]

Tuners are only needed if you need to capture analog over the air TV or analog cable channels. If you don't then they are unused.

I am not aware of any component input cards with a hardware encoder.
There is one, the sweetspot, it is a software encoder though.

[riverlethe]

I have a Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz, so I'm not too worried about a lack of hardware encoding.
Would this card work with SageTV? Where would I find it?

[stanger89]

There aren't any cards with HW encoders that lack tuners.

Well Plextor makes a couple but they're quite expensive and I think the quality is nothing to write home about.

If it's not a HW encoder, don't even bother with it, they just don't work well for PVR use.

Oh, and on component, there aren't any Sage supports. The PMS PDI Deluxe doesn't do HD either.