[mythtv-users] Compelling drop-in replacement for PVR-350?

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Mar 23, 2006, at 16.52, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Mark Johannessen wrote:
>> On 3/23/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Farris wrote:
>>>
>>>> AFAIK, they are only dropping direct support for the PVR350 in  
>>>> mythTV
>>>> itself. The ivtv-fb method of watching TV will still be supported.
>>>>
>>> *sigh*  I don't think anyone has officially declared that any  
>>> support
>>> for the PVR-350 is being dropped.  If anything, it is likely to get
>>> stale because there isn't anyone in a position to maintain it.  What
>>> this effectively means is probably not clear but I think it is a  
>>> bit of
>>> a misstatement for people here to keep declaring that support is  
>>> being
>>> dropped as if Isaac announced it on the website.
>>>
>>
>> It has been asked in this thread but not answered ... is it true that
>> the possible lack of future support will not affect the use of a
>> PRV-350 as a video capture/ encoding device but will affect it as a
>> video output/decoding device?
>>
> I believe any discussion of such a lack of development was on the  
> MPEG-2
> hardware decoding side only.

For me, that's a big consideration for getting the PVR-350 or not. My  
MythTV back-end has a rather modest CPU, and I'm hoping to  
consolidate everything into one box. As a not-so-wonderful Compaq  
Persario, it lacks an AGP slot, so using an nVidia card isn't much of  
an option.

I'm wondering if anyone has any solid information on what all this  
means.

>
> Kevin
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