[mythtv-users] Abilities of the VIA motherboards

[Rex Young]

> When looking out at http://pvrhw.goldfish.org on the hardware 
> database, people only give the VIA based boards about a 6 
> fairly consistantly. Is it fair to assume that the numbers 
> are before the recent update in drivers? Would people rate 
> them better now? 
> 
> Also, do the current issues of output limitations from the 
> music visualizations and dvd's and divix that I have read 
> about when using the PVR350 also apply to the video out on 
> the VIA boards? Is it also a matter of be patient, people are 
> working on it? 
> 
> I see that a few people on the list do use these boards, so I 
> was wondering what they thought of the capabilities of them 
> vs a full computer system. They are certainly a lot smaller 
> and cheaper (and lower CPU freq) if you are buying a system 
> from scratch.
> 
> chris

I rather like mine.  It seems to do quite well.  The only complaint
I have is the lack of full hardware support.  This will be fixed
in time, though.

-rex