AverTVHD A180

[chevowner]

I am having great results my AverTVHD A180 tuner card. Local HD program looks great. I would like to know how to enable S-video input. I have setup a BDA Recording Plugin, selected NONE for EPG source, and added a channel. When selecting Direct Recording Plugin or GO7007SB plugin, the AverTV A180 is not in the pick list for avialable tuner card. Can anyone offer some advise.
Thanks

[HtV]

Have you read this page on the wiki: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Config/DefineSource

[sub]

Unfortunately the analog side of this device lacks the required MPEG2 encoder hardware, so is not supported in GB-PVR as an analog capture device.

[chevowner]

HtV and sub, thanks for reply to this post. sub you are right about the AverTVHD A180, looks like I will have to get another card for analog. If I do then I will be able to fully utilize MCE.

[Braklet]

Unfortunately the analog side of this device lacks the required MPEG2 encoder hardware, so is not supported in GB-PVR as an analog capture device.

Is this the same card described in this thread?

http://www.aver.com/mpd/mcea180wb_feature.html

(The only model difference seems to be inclusion of "MCE" in the name.)

The manufacturer's website claims "Hardware MPEG-2 Encoded" (sic).

Reason I ask is because I'm shopping around for an ATSC receiver. I already have a PVR-500 so the analog side is kind of a moot point, all in all.

[sub]

I dont have any first hand experience with this card, but if it has an hardware MPEG2 encoder, then it might work for analog aswell - but would require a new definition to be added to the direct.ini file.

The digital side of this device works fine with GB-PVR.