2013-07-16, 02:44 PM
Hi everyone,
I am new to the PVR side of things running XBMC for years and decided it would be nice to get into PVR stuff!
Well well, it has been a few days now, lots of searching for hardware, forums reading... I bought an Hauppauge 2250, right away I saw the image quality was much worse than just having the cable plugged in my tv.
So searching for more I understand that MPEG2 compression is probably a reason for a significant lower quality. I then bought an ATI TV Wonder 750 USB! It fails as a it is USB and will just lose signal...
So what I'm looking to know is that ATI seems to have better analog cable support and Pcie versions TV Wonder 650 does have compression, 750 does not, wouldn't it be better that it does not have such compression so the image quality is better? I can't really find info on the subject since I guess almost everyone now uses digital but here with Videotron analog is still available and suits me.
Btw, my htpc hardware sports an AMD E-350 and I wonder if it will be enough to support a software encoder and if my 6310 onboard graphics be useful in that regard?
I'm open to suggestion, I do realize analog tv tuners will never look as good as the tuner in my tv but looking for the best quality possible. Also, is there much difference in using softencode in NPVR vs a hw encoder?
I am new to the PVR side of things running XBMC for years and decided it would be nice to get into PVR stuff!
Well well, it has been a few days now, lots of searching for hardware, forums reading... I bought an Hauppauge 2250, right away I saw the image quality was much worse than just having the cable plugged in my tv.
So searching for more I understand that MPEG2 compression is probably a reason for a significant lower quality. I then bought an ATI TV Wonder 750 USB! It fails as a it is USB and will just lose signal...
So what I'm looking to know is that ATI seems to have better analog cable support and Pcie versions TV Wonder 650 does have compression, 750 does not, wouldn't it be better that it does not have such compression so the image quality is better? I can't really find info on the subject since I guess almost everyone now uses digital but here with Videotron analog is still available and suits me.
Btw, my htpc hardware sports an AMD E-350 and I wonder if it will be enough to support a software encoder and if my 6310 onboard graphics be useful in that regard?
I'm open to suggestion, I do realize analog tv tuners will never look as good as the tuner in my tv but looking for the best quality possible. Also, is there much difference in using softencode in NPVR vs a hw encoder?