Which HDTV Capture Card?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday January 18, 2005 @06:55AM from the who-needs-those-free-gigs-anyways dept.

BenderMan asks: "I would like to purchase an HDTV capture card for a *nix based home PVR project. My criteria is that the card support (or be capable of in future firmware) Encrypted QAM, and that the card ignore the broadcast flag. I'll need to make my choice before July 1st, 2005. Of the few cards available that support HDTV, 64/256-QAM support (needed for cable broadcast) is spotty and it's not clear which cards currently ignore the broadcast flag. Can Slashdot readers provide any insight on the FusionHDTV, the MyHD MDP-130, and the HD-3000 cards, or any others I have overlooked?"

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HD3000 by Stoo · 2005-01-18 07:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

I've tried the ATI HDTV Wonder, and the pcHDTV HD3000.

Obviously the ATI is out because it doesn't have linux drivers, and even the windows drivers are a bit iffy.

The HD3000 is great though.

Delivery was fast, I got the card the day after I ordered it.
Driver installation is easy, just follow the instructions and away it goes.

As for the software, I only really use the cli command getatsc, give it a channel and it just starts outputting an mpeg stream.
You can then play that back or re-encode as you see fit.

Broadcast flag is ignored, and I believe they're working on QAM support for it too.