Kenbo said:
Bump -- Doesn't anyone have this card yet?
I have this card.
its very finicky, you have to try various pci slots to get it to work well. In my case make sure none of your cards are sharing the IRQ with your video card.
some negatives:
I'm running XP and not MCE. The avermedia application for XP is pretty buggy. I am having problems getting the recorder to schedule properly. It will launch the application at the appropriate time but not record. also I am having problems with the channels "changing" in the scheduler (IE I set it to do channel 2.1 but it somehow changes itself to 8.2)
record on a XP3200 with ati X700 graphics is about 40% CPU for HD channels. Playback with their software is about 30%. You need DxVA accelerated graphics card.
With powerdvd 6.0 it does a wonderful job rendering the display and only uses like 10% for playback. The catch? the recorded stream from the Avermedia application apparently doesn't record the audio in a format that plays back using PowerDVD and turtle beach with SPDIF. So I have to rely on the Avermedia software for playback which is buggy, cumbersome, etc.
Avermedia support does respond and they have been able to duplicate the problem but I have not seen any commitment from them to improve the drivers or software to fix these issues.
I'm still looking for a good 3rd party recorder which can capture the audio with the video and then I'll be in heaven, or at least have a working pvr again I guess thats as close to heaven as I want to be ...