Pvr-tv Pe210

[ClamsTheCat]

Has anyone played with this card? It is a dual Analog PCI-E x1 card that is interesting. I can't seem to find anywhere whether it has hardware mpeg2 however. Can anyone figure that part out? If it does I am pretty interested.

This card is made by KWorld.

http://www.kworld.com.tw/product_overview.aspx?P_ID=14

[myktek]

i'm pretty sure it is, it says it can record 2 shows simultaneously... but if you read on, it says MPEG4 is compatible with DivX or Microsoft MPEG4....which confuses me, but i'm pretty sure it is, on the requirements page, they estimate hdd based on mpeg2, so imma say most likely yes.

Another reason why I say yes is, that if it was a software encoding dual tuner, then it would need two sound cards to function properly....I doubt they would put a product out that needed a setup like that.

[Rich A]

All the way at the end of the user guide they talk about recording in Mpeg-4. You have your choice of Windows mpeg-4 or Dixv. And it says you can only record mpeg-4 from the auxilarly video inputs, not directly from the tuner.

I think you are correct and it is probably an mpeg-2 hardware encoder tied to the tuners. The software that comes with it is pretty interesting. They give you dual tuner PVR capability and optionally an FM tuner that can also record shows. As well as an editor, a transcoding engine and a DVD creator.

[ClamsTheCat]

I think I will pick one up and give it a try. I can return it if it is a no-go. I like the whole PCI-E part.

[myktek]

Originally Posted by ClamsTheCat

I think I will pick one up and give it a try. I can return it if it is a no-go. I like the whole PCI-E part.

pick me up one too

[ClamsTheCat]

In case anyone is wondering, Fry's is selling these for 79.99 which I thought was a great price for a dual tuner.

[rdb4133]

I was just doing some research on Dual Tuner cards (I have several PVR-500's) but I would like to at least move one or two of those to PCI-Express based cards. I read about the VistaView one but heard the quality of Coax in leaves a bit to be desired (at least the threads I found about it).

ClamsTheCat, did you end up getting this card? If so did it work? Thanks!

[merrypig]

Two comments;
#1 ; newegg feedback for this card indicates NO hardware encoding
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815260003 )

#2; Philips does not have a dual channel hardware encoder chipset that has a pciexpress front end. The size of the chip in the picture and the functionality appear to belong to the SAA7162E chipset which is a multistandard video/audio decoder only, no compression/decompression. Philips (actually nxp now) also have mpeg2 encoders, but I have not seen a mpeg4 encoder.

I would say it is a software encoder solution only.

[ClamsTheCat]

I didn't get this because it was software encoding

Seemed to good to be true. I loved that it was PCI-E as well.