[mythtv-users] Abilities of the VIA motherboards

[Mark]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:16 pm, Chris Ward wrote:
> 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?
I have a Epox VIA KT400 board, and I would give it a 10.  It works perfect.
Not bad for $60 or so.

>
> 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
>
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