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<TT>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:07 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:</TT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>However, honestly, the advantages of NVIDIA card you presented are not</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>overwhelming. The MythTV box will be used for MythTV only, nothing else,</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>hence OpenGL does not matter, am I right?</TT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>OpenGL is currently used by MythMusic (Goom!!!! among other </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>visualizations), and many games that are played using MythGame. Then, </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>there's OpenGL vsync for smooth frame delivery.</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>Also, MythUI--which will probably show up in 0.20--will use OpenGL as </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>the painting backend by default and will be the best reason to have </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>hardware-based OpenGL acceleration support.</TT></FONT>
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<TT>While MythGames are not on the list, MythMusic and new MythUI is worth considering. </TT>
<TT>BTW, do you know when 0.20 is planned to be released?</TT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>I don't even have, and don't</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>plan to have, a regular monitor/LCD at home which I could use :) Signal</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>(MythTV) goes to TV out only. </TT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>Right now I output TV to my receiver and then to TV. While HDTV is a</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>nice-to-have, i do not expect to have it in the next 6 - 12 month, while</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>I will watch TV in the next 6 - 12 months :) Hence having DVI, HDTV and</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>so on is not the highest priority. I will probably want to add it, </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>> </TT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>Yeah, me too. But then again, plans change. I just bought an </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>HDTV--something I've been saying I wouldn't do... </TT></FONT>
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<TT>:) yep. I totally agree. You never know. However, while I'd like to </TT>
<TT>have nice (new) tv, trekking in Peru and visiting Mexico, Paris and Toronto</TT>
<TT>takes precedence :)</TT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT> But, it's your </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>decision to make--I was just trying to answer your question, "whether it </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>makes more sense to get PVR-350 (I don't need dual tuners of 500, since </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>I use cable box) or nice NVIDIA graphics card for better support for </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>linux?"</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>I'm just thinking that if you're truly concerned with the pursuit of </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>video perfection, you'll eventually find that NTSC/PAL--not your </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>video/capture card--is the weak link in the chain. :</TT></FONT><TT>)</TT>
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<TT>:) </TT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>I am going solely after the picture (TV) quality. I do not mind</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>proprietary drivers, since I hope I have my compile-from-source times</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>behind me, starting with the (very) early Linux times. I know, however,</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>that ATI (proprietary) drivers are worse than NVIDIA ones. BTW, which</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>NVIIDA card is worth looking at? I don't want to end up with card which</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>>is not supported under Linux at all.</TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>> </TT></FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>Like I said, the PVR-350 will provide that placebo effect that makes you </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>believe for sure that you have the best possible picture quality. ;</TT></FONT><TT>)</TT>
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<TT>yeah ... and since my goal was not to spend any money (so far so good - old</TT>
<TT>parts from unused computers of mine), it seems that graphics card would be a </TT>
<TT>better solution in a long run. </TT>
<TT>And I admit, that software encoding itself, does not have a huge impact on </TT>
<TT>the system, I can live with that. </TT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>Mike</TT></FONT>
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Michael<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>Totally OT rant: I've got to admit that having received this message </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>from you, I'm extremely disappointed with Evolution. I know it's trying </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>to be the Outlook replacement, but do they really want to make it as </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>awful as Outlook? It actually puts a one-celled table containing </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>another one-celled table containing your entire message (and, therefore, </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>the entire body of the HTML page) in the HTML version of your multipart </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>message. And, it does the same HTML-obfuscation that MS FrontPage </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>does--i.e. opening and closing font tags all over (although FrontPage </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>goes much farther than Evolution with the obfuscation). And, I won't </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>even mention the deprecated HTML 4.01 instead of xHTML (or even </TT></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><TT>xHTML-like HTML)...</TT></FONT>
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I couldn't agree more. Not to mention that integration with Exchange is far from perfect, attachments are randomly<BR>
changed from a supported type/extension (zip, doc) to a binary (.bin) type. No idea why and whet it happens, however <BR>
it's so frustrating that I have to use VMWare with outlook just for the purpose of sending the attachments.<BR>
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