[mythtv-users] pvr-250 video resolution, quality, stability

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:03, michael brown wrote:

> Jarod C. Wilson wrote some stuff that OE saw as an attachment:
>
>
>>> I have seen more than one VIA based socket-370 motherboard that
>>> couldn't
>>> handle driving a TV capture card full screen without tearing and
>>> dropping many frames.  The data path between the PCI capture card and
>>> the AGP bus was apparently restricted when compared to Intel.  New
>>> drivers, bios, and everything else I could think of would not fix it.
>>> I
>>> finally swapped the boards for i815 based and viola, everything's
>>> perfect.
>
>> For what its worth, I've got an MSI KM2M Combo-L micro-ATX board that
>> uses the KM266 chipset, and it was rock-solid with a PVR-250. (I've
>> since replaced it with an nForce2 board, but not because of stability
>> reasons). Its one of those ymmv things... :-\
>
> Glad to hear that they've got it going well now.  :-)

I was running it without problems about six months ago, actually. It 
seems to vary heavily from chipset to chipset, motherboard to 
motherboard, and I just happened to have a board that played nice. :-\

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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