[mythtv-users] Cheap PVR350 Card?

[Grant Edwards]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Franco wrote:
> >> what's the differance between the PVR-250 and 350?
> > IIRC, the built-in MPEG2 decoder in the PVR-350 is only used if you use the 
> > TV-out on the 350 to display X.
> 
> When I was new to this list and I asked the usual 250-vs-350 question,
> I was told that the MPEG2 encoder, decoder, TV tuner, FM tuner, etc.,
> were all indipendent modules so they could be used independently...

That's true.

Except that the framebuffer and MPEG decoder
outputs are combined in HW, so those two can only be used
separately if you're happy with both showing up on the same
monitor.

> I'm not sure, though, whether this means that they "could" (if somebody
> wrote the necessary software) or that it is alerady implemented...

It's implimented.

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Grant Edwards
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