FusionHDTV 5 RT requirements

Kevin Downey redchin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 11:06:37 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> Kevin Downey wrote this message on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:01 -0800:
>> I am thinking of getting a FusionHDTV 5 RT tuner, but I am worried
>> about my current video recording box.
>> (dmesg bits)
>>
>> CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+ (1399.85-MHz K8-class CPU)
>> usable memory = 527552512 (503 MB)
>>
>> what kind of machines are people using to do capture with these cards?
>
> I'd just get an HDHomeRun instead.  You get dual tuners, and a company
> that supports their products on other OS's like FreeBSD.  I'm thinking
> of picking up a seconds one and getting rid of my two FusionHDTV 5 Lite
> cards...  Though it you still want analog, the HDHomeRun doesn't support
> it, only ATSC (aka 8vsb) or QAM digital broadcasts...
>
> With my FusionHDTV 5 Lite cards, if I did a record and sent out a stream
> via the em ethernet card on the same PCI bus, I would get bus overruns,
> causing video corruptions...   Not a good card if you can't even put
> 5MB/sec on the bus w/o issues...
>
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>
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>

Wow, I had never heard of the HDHomeRun. It looks like a really nice device.

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