[mythtv-users] Sigma Designs X-Card

Michael Janer michael at janernet.com
Tue Dec 16 13:58:13 EST 2003


There's no maybe about it.  The PVR 350 can encode and decode at the same time.  Both engines are contained on a single chip, and they are two completely different types of tasks.  The reason why somebody would want it is because they have only one pci slot.  Or they only have one left and need a second tuner.  Xcard is nice because of the ability to do component and DVD playback, but you are not going to get that functionality in linux.....yet.  Somebody may be working on copying the magic they work with the transcoding of mpeg4 to mpeg2 in the windows drivers, but I am sure it's a long way off.  Getting the mpeg2 playback to work will probably be easy, but not mpeg4 as it is not native to the decoder on the Xcard.
Honer
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