Support for ASUS-card

[Reddwarf]

Can someone PLEASE add support for the ASUS My Cinema-P7131 Hybrid tv-card? I need it yesterday

This is an inexpensive card with excellent quality, but GBPVR does not seem to support tha analog part of it, and I have no digital signal, so to watch tv on my new card I have to use that stinking PowerCinema program (iearch )

[stustunz]

i cant see that it has the hardware encoder that is required for it to work with gbpvr
if it uses software to do the encoding then it will not work and will never be supported

[Zathras]

Reddwarf,

A quick search of the forum yields several discussions concerning this card.

The most extensive discussion is listed in the forum thread link below.
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=8921&page=2

It appears the analog side is not natively operational under GBPVR due to the lack of a hardware encoder.

Some individuals have had success after making modifications to the BDA.ini and direct.ini files. Details are contained within the forum thread.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

[Reddwarf]

Thanks, I'll try those modifications. But Sub: What's the problem using a software encoder for recording from analog cards that doesn't have a hw-encoder? Other programs (like Chris-tv) has no problem with that?

[sub]

Its just not something I'm interested in adding. I've never liked cards that require software encoding.

[Reddwarf]

What a pity... I was considering a donation... but unless I can use gbpvr

[sub]

Sorry, no can do. I'm not interested in software encoding.

I'm not going to chase a possible donation of a few dollars in exchange for the large amount of time & effort that would be required to support software encoding - its just not worth it. I'd recommend users buy hardware encoding devices instead. They do a much better job, are much more fault tolerant, work better in multi-card setups and are cheap these days.

[prouton]

To be fair, a hardware encoder card is probably twice the price of a software only card. So let's say that's $35 versus $70 (I always look for sale/rebate prices :o ). And I want three tuners in the box in order to not have to struggle with what to record/ what to miss. That's $105 additional that has to be spent.

But because those three hardware encoding cards put so little demand on the computer's resources, I can build my PVR from a cast-off system with as little as a 1.6GHz processor, and with a decent video card ($40) I can not only record three channels but watch previously recorded material at the same time. I figure that saves me spending $300-$400 on a motherboard, 3GHz processor, RAM to match the new processor FSB speed, and powersupply to match the new motherboard. Sure, the system I have won't handle HD video, but we're not talking about digital tuners in this case, so no HD anyways.

[Reddwarf]

Well, I'm running an old AMD-1.4 GHz cpu with a cast-off motherboard, and this setup has no problem doing SW-encoding in real time. Another side of the matter is that a HW-encoder is not flexible with regard to encoding quality, GOP-length an so on. And more and more TV-cards comes without a HW-encoder. Luckily there is a project called MediaPortal, a free PVR and the developers has no fixed opinion against tv-cards without HW-encoder

[stustunz]

good luck
we will see just how well it does when you add a few more then try watching
you will learn you wasted your money
and you can change all those things you mentioned actually
maybe next time you will not buy the cheapest piece of crap on the market
just because more cards come with something doesnt make them better