[mythtv-users] Re:PVR-350 Question

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of
> totallyfake1 at eml.cc
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:48 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re:PVR-350 Question
>
>
> >Short answer: not yet; maybe not ever. See the following thread:
> >http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=
> >63415;search_string=350;guest=535174&t=search_engine#63415
> >-JAC
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that until a linux driver is
> available for the TV out, the hardware decoder won't be useable?

Correct... the PVR-350 hardware decoder is currently not supported.  Again,
even if it were, Myth would have to support displaying all screens (not just
the video streams, but menus, etc) as MPEG streams.  I don't know how
difficult that would be; I imagine if there was enough interest that someone
would undertake the task, but at this point I wouldn't buy the 350 over the
250.  There are (I believe) currently other hardware decoder boards that
*are* supported under Linux, which also can't be used with Myth.

> Or, can
> the output somehow be passed through the other video card?

You can pass anything you want through the other video card, but you'll be
doing the decoding in software.

-JAC