[mythtv-users] advice needed on HD-3000 and PVR-350
Brian Foddy
bfoddy at visi.com
Mon Dec 12 23:29:24 EST 2005
On Monday 12 December 2005 02:19 pm, Chris Gentle wrote:
> Hi. I'm considering purchasing an HD-3000 and I'd like a little
> advice. I currently have two Hauppauge PVR-350 cards in two
> separate machines. Both machines have fairly low-end hardware so I
> use the decoder on both 350 cards. Output is excellent, by the way. :)
>
> If I purchase one of these cards, can the captured files from the
> HD-3000 be transcoded into a stream that can be played back through
> the 350's decoder? The machines are really not fast enough to play
> back without the decoder.
>
> Speaking of transcoding, does MythTV use the actual 'transcode'
> program or does it use its own internal transcoding?
If they can't play a standard NTSC stream, no way will they
do a HD stream, and the pvr350 can't help you.
To play a decent HD stream, you need some pretty good hardware.
I've been "living" with a P3-1400 and it will barely play with XvMC,
but I would't recommend it. I'm about to build a much faster
machine, AMD 64X2, but that's overkill.
Brian
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