[mythtv-users] Why use PVR 350 TV-out? (Was: X and PVR 350)

[Didde Brockman]

This question is very interesting. I have a TV-out on my nVidia GPU but 
I just recently got the TV-out on the Hauppage to work well – thanks to 
a miracle as I had tried it four times already without success. I 
haven't tried playing a DVD-rip, Xvid, DivX or anything but "TV" 
through the box. Are you guys saying that a AMD64 2800+ will have 
problems coping with the copying of data from and to the PVR-350's in / 
out? If that's the case then I seriously wonder why one would ever buy 
a 350 as opposed to a 250.



Kindly,
Didde

On Jan 28, 2005, at 20:30, Dan Wilga wrote:

> At 4:06 PM +0000 1/28/05, Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
>> So my question is, why should people setting up their Myth boxes even 
>> try to use the PVR 350?  Why not just buy a PVR 250 and a e-GeForce 
>> MX4000 for the same price?
>
> In my case it comes down to a lack of free card slots. I can't fit 
> another graphics card, along with everything else I already have in 
> the case. My motherboard has built-in ATI graphics (9100-IGXP), but 
> I've had lots of problems getting that to work acceptably with Myth, 
> mostly due to ATI's lousy driver.
>
> In my case, I don't watch DVDs or play games on my Myth box, so I 
> don't really mind most the drawbacks. The inability to control 
> overscan on the 350 is only a minor annoyance.
> -- 
> Dan Wilga                                         dwilga at mtholyoke.edu