[mythtv-users] WinTV PVR Cards

Shawn core at enodev.com
Wed Jul 23 15:26:47 EDT 2003


Yeah, but the speed of development would suggest they're too busy
watching TV to code.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:47, Graeme Blackley wrote:
> I've got a virtually silent EPIA box with no fans, and a very quiet Seagate
> Barracuda drive with acoustic management enabled. There is no way I could
> have a solution this quiet running a Athlon or PentiumIV solution. The EPIA
> is way too slow to do software decoding, and doesnt *really* have hardware
> decoding capabilities (rather it has "hardware assisted decode" routines -
> useless). The decoding on the PVR350 gives a excellent picture, and uses
> about 15% CPU on my slow ME6000 EPIA.
> 
> I'm currently using WindowsXP because the decoder isn't supported (yet)
> under Linux, but I'm hoping that will all change soon. The ivtv guys have
> indicated there intention to get the decoder working in their driver.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Empfield" <oldwizeman85 at hotmail.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:43 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR Cards
> 
> 
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Finally got MythTv up and running.  Right now all I can do is view the
> > Weather, but that is ok.  I still have to configure the rest and play
> round
> > with the program has well.
> >
> > Anyway, I would like to purchase a video caputre card for this system
> > because I think I am going to stick with MythTV.  Would I be better off
> with
> > the WinTV PVR 250 or should I go with the PVR 350?  I know that the
> hardware
> > decoder in the PVR 350 is not supported so would purchasing this one be a
> > waste of money?  Will the decoder to be supported soon?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Rob
> >
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