[mythtv-users] It's not the TiVo that she loved...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/05/2006 09:03 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Wednesday 05 April 2006 20:56, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>On 04/05/2006 08:03 PM, Robert Johnston wrote:
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>>>On 4/5/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>>>>On 04/05/2006 04:50 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
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>>>>>I think several factors work against the 350, or at least the mpeg-2
>>>>>decoder in it.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>No timestretch.
>>>>No closed-caption support (must use the TV's CC decoder to display them,
>>>>meaning you have to keep your TV remote nearby)
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>>>>
>>>Just as a heads-up, Myth now (From 0.19) supports IVTV's "Sliced"
>>>captions, which means you can get captions from a PVR350 (As I'm using
>>>the CC decoder successfully with my dual 250's and FX5200)
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>>>
>>But you can't display the captions on the output from the MPEG-2 decoder
>>in the PVR-350.  It outputs them in the NTSC signal for the TV to decode.
>>
>>Captions work for you because you're using a real video card--the
>>FX5200.  The point of the post was that the PVR-350's decoder is really
>>not worth the money (and--IMHO--more importantly, not worth supporting).
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>Why not?  The pvr-350 can display other OSD images, why can't it display 
>captions, which are just another type of OSD?
>
(Thinking I must be way off base if Isaac is questioning me...)

Guess I'm wrong.  I was basing my information on:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/191814#191814
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/188312#188312
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/184357#184357

which all claimed that you have to use the ivtvdev X driver (not the 
hardware decoder) to get Myth to display the captions on PVR-350 output.

I just figured it was a "not yet implemented" thing (since, until 
recently PVR-x50 captions weren't supported in Myth, I figured no one 
had gotten around to implementing it for VideoOutputIvtv).

So, it seems the truth is that Daniel couldn't figure out how to make it 
work and decided it doesn't work.  He convinced Brad it doesn't work.  
Then, Brad told Dan.  Now the question is whether Dan believed Brad.  
:)  If so, I don't blame Dan--Daniel and Brad had me convinced.

Mike