TV Tuner Card?

[BroadbandGamer]

I want to pick up a TV tuner card so I can record TV shows and play them on my new iPod (when it shows up).

It need to be able to record in MPEG 4 and/or H.264.

So what do you guys recommend?

 

[eelw]

Quicktime 7 Pro

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Originally posted by: eelw
Quicktime 7 Pro

Yeah, but I still need a TV Tuner card.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Haugpauge PVR 150

 

[Traire]

Originally posted by: BroadbandGamer
So what do you guys recommend?

Hauppauge PVR-150 or Saphire Theater 550

Originally posted by: BroadbandGamer
It need to be able to record in MPEG 4 and/or H.264.

There are no TV tuners that will record directly to MP4. Botht the Hauppauge and Saphire cards will record to MP2. You can then transcode that to H.264 or whatever variant you need.

 

[xtknight]

Neither of those TV tuners record directly to H.264. Only MPEG-2 from the capture path AFAIK. Then from there you can encode it to DivX,xvid,x264,quicktime,realplayer,WMV, you get the point. 🙂

 

[Traire]

yeah I meant to say MP2

 

[ElFenix]

are either of those HD cards?

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
are either of those HD cards?

The Hauppauge PVR-150 and the Sapphire Theater 550 are not HD cards. They can only receive from an analog TV source.

 

[openwheelformula1]

They are both good, Hauppauge is much cheaper though. Just get the PVR-150.