Capture card support

[DennisH]

Hello -

I would like to know if anyone has used this card with SageTV:
http://www.snazzi.com/newsite/pages/...azziDVAVIO.asp

I have DirecTV and don't need a card with a tuner on it. I would like to use this one because of it's MPEG4 encoding capabilities. Thanks!

[SHS]

No, This is DV card it dosen't do any Hardware Encoding

[stanger89]

I doubt it, it doesn't look like it has a HW encoder. Sage currently only supports capture to MPEG-2 and will probably stay that way until Hardware MPEG-4 encode cards become common.

[DennisH]

Strange that Snazzi's information doesn't state that this card uses hardware encoding. I used the information from here to check if it did:
http://www.videohelp.com/capturecard...d=306#comments

Also, it has analog inputs on it. Wouldn't that allow me to capture the s-video output from my sat box?

If I can only encode TV to MPEG2 at this time that would be okay, I can wait until Sage supports it. I would be using the MPEG4 encoding for video tapes that I would like to store on my server for playback on the TV.

I'm just trying to get the best bang for my buck and keep an eye open to the future...

[stanger89]

Originally posted by DennisH
Strange that Snazzi's information doesn't state that this card uses hardware encoding. I used the information from here to check if it did:
http://www.videohelp.com/capturecard...d=306#comments

I don't think that's right, according to this Page, it uses software MPEG encoding care of MainConcept. Plus, the Snazzi site lists a 1.8GHz PI as a requirement, thats really high if it's HW encode/decode, some people here are running Sage with full HW encode/decode on P-II 400s.

Also, it has analog inputs on it. Wouldn't that allow me to capture the s-video output from my sat box?

If I can only encode TV to MPEG2 at this time that would be okay, I can wait until Sage supports it. I would be using the MPEG4 encoding for video tapes that I would like to store on my server for playback on the TV.

FWIW, Sage can play DivX, but it can't currenly capture to it, and it's no supported for "Sage Recordings" only imported media.

I'm just trying to get the best bang for my buck and keep an eye open to the future...

Further the PVR 250 is $50-100 cheaper than this product, and is known to work very well with Sage.