[MPlayer-users] tv card basics

[Chris Phillips]

> I want to start encoding from TV for ACAP (As Cheap As Possible)
> 
> There are cheap tv cards with no saving/encoding at all or expensive 
> ones with mpeg (only 1 or 2, I assume) encoding.
> Can I get the cheap one (without encoding) and use mencoder to capture 
> the stream from it and encoding it to mpeg4?
> Does anyone have such a cheap card and could recommend me the brand/type?

anything based on bt878 should be fine. my wintvgo is super. obviously 
mencoder does all the capture outside of the card itself.

chris
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