[mythtv-users] Sigma Designs X-Card

[Dale Weber]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:25 am, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 19:25, Dale Weber wrote:
> > 	Of course, the PVR/350 has the encoder and decoder in one card, but you
> > can't use both at the same time.
>
> Sshh, don't tell it. Mine doesn't know this and is doing it very happily
> at the moment ;-)

	I thought I had properly qualified my comments about it not being able to do 
both at the same time.  Apologies to you and everyone else for not having 
done so.  I currently don't have any direct experiences with the PVR/350, but 
will soon.  :)

> > The X-Card only costs $99.00 to get a second
> > decoder with the necessary Y-Pb-R outputs to drive an HDTV directly.
>
> It DECODES divx? Or is is CPU decoding and hardware scaling?

	I am not sure how much of the magic the X-Card does is contained in the 
drivers, but under another OS, it does indeed decode DivX and MPEG and 
display them full screen on my HTDV.  I do know the X-Card does have the MPEG 
decoder in hardware though.

	It's starting to look like the X-Card's magic is largely contained in the OS 
drivers though, with only the MPEG decoder and video output circuitry in 
hardware.  I am reasonably sure the video scaling is done in hardware, but am 
not positive.  The X-Card does allow display of DivX and MPEG files full 
screen on my HTDV.

	8-Dale
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