[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Deciding

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/30/06 11:30, Daniel A Segel wrote:

>Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>
>>    - and, most importantly, getting a working MythTV ( 
>>http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/745 , 
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/214931#214931 , and 
>>...), which will be harder and harder to do in the future as none of the 
>>main devs use PVR-350 output, anymore, and no one who does has stepped 
>>up to maintain the PVR-350 output portion of Myth.
>>
>I won't address the other points at this time (although I believe some 
>of them to be solvable as well), but the issues raised in the 745 ticket 
>are largely a non-issue now that xv support works so well with the 350. 
>I stopped using the onboard decoder and switched to xv some time ago 
>after I figured out how to set it up for maximum video quality and never 
>looked back. The 350 still provides a better NTSC picture than any video 
>card I've seen, even if you're only using it for video out and not for 
>HW decoding.
>
>If you want HDTV output then the 350 obviously won't work, but for 
>standard def the only thing I've found that it can't do that would be 
>nice is OpenGL support.
>

OK, so disabling the PVR-350 hardware decoder and instead using the 
software decoder to do Xv output on the PVR-350 still doesn't solve the 
problem that MythTV requires a 100x100DPI, and it's impossible to get 
that using a video aspect ratio that differs from the display aspect ratio.

Oh, and, you've obviously never seen a properly-configured video card's 
TV output, either.  (I am assuming you would buy a video card with a 
quality TV out--something like the $20 Chaintech GF4MX440, for example.)

(Trying my hardest not to mention the whole buying a Gremlin for the 
price of a Ferarri issue, either.   (~$100 more than a PVR-150 for an 
Xv-only, 720x480-only video card)  Oops.  Just mentioned it. ;)

Mike