[mythtv-users] Success!!!

[Scott Anderson]

Oddly enough, I just did this last night as well. I have a PVR-350 that 
freezes all the time... the WAF was dropping quickly, so I bought a $47 
Prolink MX440 card. The setup consisted of installing the nVidia drivers 
with apt-get and playing with the XF86Config file a bit.

The 250 portion of the card works great for the tuner, though.

The only issues:
1) Things are much redder through the nVidia card. Picture quality seems 
equivalent, though.
2) There seem to be dropped frames. CPU usage is only 10%, however, on 
an AMD 2000.
3) There's something slightly odd with the sound synch.

All in all I'm much happier with the nVidia at this point. I just have 
to work out a few minor things.

-scott

Matt Hannan wrote:

>So I cheated. Sue me!
>
>Started watching the list fill up with questions about how to use the
>PVR-350 TV-Out and then running into headaches of my own with it, I
>decided to walk a different path.
>
>Went out and got the Mad Dog Predator MX 440 BX.
>
>I knew the evening was going to be a good one when I powered on the
>first time with the TV hooked via S-Video to the Mad Dog and I watched
>the POST process on the telly and the VGA monitor at the same time!!! It
>works out of the box at a hardware level!!!
>
>Spent an hour or two screwing with XF86Config settings and then noticed
>that in my XFree86 log a line that said something about two displays
>being hooked up, but only one being allowed. init 3, disconnect VGA,
>init 5 and BAM!!! Up came RedHat on the TV!!!
>
>Fired up MythFrontend and had The Jimmy Kimmel Show with synched sound.
>Whoo Whoo!! Not the best show in the world, but for a test of mouths and
>voices, it works!
>
>Next step is to test a recording, so I am filling the myth database
>right now. This is a topic for another post.
>
>But I think everything is good.
>
>My one question in this post is: Of what benefit is the PVR-350's
>TV-out? Is it only if you do not have any other way to pass the signal
>to the TV? My answer: Stop wasting your time. For $70 I got a kicking
>video card and very little headache in getting MythTV to run on it.
>
>OK, two questions: How can I get BOTH the TV and the VGA to display, or
>maybe even better would be to have MythTV ONLY on the TV and the rest of
>RedHat on the VGA. I don't mind having a TV and a monitor next to each
>other.
>
>Also, BIG thanks to everyone, especially Isaac, Jarod and Axel.
>  
>