Will this AverMedia OEM card for "MediaCenter" work????

[PGPfan]

Hi All,

I'm new to the forum but have been watching the developement of SageTV via AVSForum and I'm impressed by the functionality. (hopefully the GUI asthetics will get there also;) )

Anyhow, I have a Creative DVCR card that I plan to use, along with the "AVerMedia M179 AVerTV PVR TV Tuner for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center - OEM" which NewEgg has for $93.00

Specifications:
Chipset: CX23415

My questions are:
1) Will this card work with Sage app's?
2) The only driver that the card comes with is for MS MediaCenter, will this driver work with the Sage app's?
3) And will this work okay with the Creative DVCR for a 'dual tuner' setup?

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

-PGPfan

[SHS]

It dosen't have a property pages there for I don't Jeff can't set it up as eazy as can with PVR 250

[Narflex]

Don't know to all 3 of those because no one's tried it yet to my knowledge. But if 1 & 2 are good then I'm fairly sure 3 should be too.

Regarding the property pages; that's not how I configure the encoder, so those don't matter. As long as they haven't changed the GUIDs to something different than the reference implementation; it all should do fine.

[naln]

Hi,
I just hooked up a M150 to my setup. Works great using the default drivers downloaded from the website. Only problem is it gives a small greenish flikcker- a small line at the bottom of the screen every now and then.....

I would say the video quality is slightly inferior to the Hauppauge 250/350. I assume the issues would be similar for the 179- which is supposed to be a better product than 150. As for Creative DVCR- as per my limited knowledge, sage requires hardware encoders- which the Creative cards may not do- so that is something to start- people have tried using beyond tv and myth tv with creative. I do own a Creative video capture card- and find it excellent for watching live TV, but if you want to record shows- the dvcr files seem to be custom mpeg format. So requires re-encoding-

[PGPfan]

Hi Naln,

Thanks for the post. There are a couple things I wanted to correct, though. The M-170 is actually the 'inferior' of the 2 AverMedia cards. Although the s-video input looks good, the tuner is TERRIBLE by comparison to the M-150.

The M-150 is a 'blackbird' based design, and as such it is a much newer, lower power version. The M-179 has an onboard fan (which is truely a piece-of-sh!t, as fans go) and consumes way more power which means it uses the older -15 Conexant chipset.

The M-150 is using the newer/better -16 chipset.

-PGPfan