[mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour

[Olivier]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Boyd II, Willy" <wboyd at fulbright.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour


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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Olivier [mailto:obrodeur at videotron.ca]
> >Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:07 PM
> >To: Discussion about mythtv
> >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 + MythTv behaviour
> >
> >
> >> What exactly would you gain by doing that?  I could see the
> >attraction
> >> for an analog tuner (i.e., don't do simultaneous encode/decode until
> >> you have to so as not to tax the CPU unnecessarily), but if
> >you have a
> >> HW encoder & decoder, what are you gaining by not using one of them?
> >>
> >
> >That would eliminate the ring buffer delay. changing channel
> >would be instantaneous... and driving waf (wife acceptance
> >factor) up!  :-)
>
> Yeah but then you lose all PVR capabilities (and I'm not so sure how well

no... my premise, in original email, was that PVR can feed tv-out with
line-in *and* encode to disk. If PVR350 can do that, then you would not
loose pvr functionality. Otherwise, I agress with you that what I am talking
about is pretty much pointless.