<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and
the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the
deal for me.</blockquote></div><br>
I could be wrong, but my answer to that would be "yes and no". While it
is technically possible to do that, it wouldn't work very well. TVOut
on the 350 is done in a way as to make mpeg video output directly.
Picture in picture (I believe) requires normal XV, which is done via
framebuffer on the 350, which is MUCH slower than the mpeg decoding. So
basically, you CAN do picture in picture, but it may be choppy or slow,
your results may vary.<br>
<br>
I should note that this answer only takes into account the hardware
limitation, not the mythtv software limitations. Picture in Picture may
well be coded in such a way as to make it difficult to use the PVR
output to accomplish it, so you may even be stuck using framebuffer for
all output, which I would say is a Bad Idea, and you'd be better off
switching to a normal nvidia output.<br>
<br>
- Jeff<br>