[mythtv-users] Hauppauge Media MVP

[Christian Hack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod C. Wilson [mailto:jcw at wilsonet.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2003 1:18 PM
> To: christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge Media MVP
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:35, Christian Hack wrote:
> > Anyone seen or got one of these:
> > 
> > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6144692803.html
> > http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.pdf
> > 
> > US$99. Has hardware decode of MPEG1/2 streams as well as MP3 -
> > unfortunately no MPEG4 it seems so it's only really 
> sutiable for DVB /
> > PVR250 / PVR350 customers. PAL or NTSC output including 
> component and
> > RGB. Runs some sort of linux.
> > 
> > Would obviously require a lot of hardware hacking and reverse
> > engineering to get it to work, but it could be a really nice little
> > frontend for MythTV if the two can be interfaced.
> > 
> > It needs a server on a PC somewhere else so it's probably 
> pretty dumb,
> > but if you could get the MythTV backend to do this, that 
> could be cool.
> > I think I might get one just to play with.
> 
> Nifty little thing, though the component video out seems to 
> be a bit of
> a waste, since it won't handle anything larger than full-rez NTSC or
> PAL... They mention mpeg2-ts support, but what good is that 
> if it can't
> decode it in real-time?!? (In the case of a full 1920x1080 mpeg2-ts,
> that is)...
> 

Hmmm and no digital audio out either. Still looks nifty for a budget
frontend.

CH