[mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Mon May 9 18:10:06 UTC 2005


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David Watkins writes:
> Thanks James.  I hadn't seen that link before, and all information is
> usefull.  I'm looking to take the PVR-350 out of my EPIA M10000
> combined front/backend, leaving the EPIA as a front end only, and put
> the 350 into a new dedicated backend along with a NOVA-T DVB card.
> 
> I'm hoping that the Unichrome drivers will be at least as good as the
> PVR350 output for mythTV, and a bit better than the 350 for mythVideo
> (because more applications support XvMC output than support the 350's
> hardware decoder).
> 
> Anyone able to comment on PVR-350 vs Unichrome, for playback quality?

Hmm -- I tried switching to Unichrome XvMC output instead of the PVR-350
tv-out, and quality was noticeably worse, so I switched back.  This was on
an ME6000, however, not M10k. I used the KnoppMyth R5A12 precompiled
binaries.

Specifically:

- - enabling overscan resulted in several vertical blank lines on the NTSC
  tv out, as described here [1]  (looks like it's now fixed in CVS)
- - also noticeably less sharp output, with overscan on or off
- - higher CPU usage, so hotter CPU.  I'm trading off CPU load
  for fan speed, so this was also a negative for me.

[1]: http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=65651&enterthread=y

- --j.
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