[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi David,


* David Wood <David.Wood at thestreet.com>, Thursday, June 24, 2004, 5:32:42 PM:

> So far it sounds like an Athlon XP 2xxx+,
Why that big cpu? I have two pvr350's, and my p3-933 can deal with it
very good (even though I only use the pvrs as encoder, and use a
regular graphicscard for playback, with the cpu as decoder (my display
has a dvi in))
> a big HD, and a Hauppauge PVR-350. But I have some reservations
> about the 350, since it sounds like the TV output device driver is
> in flux and not reliable/stable. And is it true that I won't be able
> to play movies through it that aren't in MPEG2 format?
No, you just won't be able to use the TV-out with
hardware-acceleration for mpeg if you are doing something non-mpeg.
There is a framebuffer-driver that you can use.
> Will I have to awkwardly switch between using it as a decoder and
> using it as a regular X display?
no



 Timo