This is really a hardware problem (3 above) but I was not able to overcome it at the time. I Still, it suffers from stuttering and pixelation when recording two analog programs while watching an HDTV program. Such as an easy way to tell the software to pick HDTV channels instead of non-HDTV channels that are presenting the same program.ĥ) BTV has a pretty good GUI and good remote controls. Tuner as a starting point for any future PVR build efforts.Ĥ) SageTv has lots of features for "geeks" but is missing lots of features. Theater 650 chipset based tuners which ARE reported to have a Note: Recently, ATI has introduced the ATI
This with a dual core 4200+ghz cpu and this was better than two other MBs I tried. This causes excessive CPU utilization and can result in stuttering video when recording two analog channels and watching a HDTV channel. I now consider this THE major unresoled limitation in trying to build a PC version PVR to compete with a Tivo Series 3.ģ) Don't buy Tuner cards without a hardware encoder on analog channels.
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Problems with the Beyond TV and Sage TV approaches?ġ) Tuner cards with drivers not compatible with running two cards together (Dvico).Ģ) Tuner cards that cannot accept cable cards and so limit you to OTA HDTV and analog cable channels. I have done so and, to make a long story short, I just bought a Tivo Series 3. But when it came time for HDTV, I decided to try a "build your own" PVR using SageTV or Beyond TV. I have used a Tivo model 1 for years and love it.