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Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mar 23, 2006, at 03.58, Ian Forde wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 01:50 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Oh piffle! I was considering condensing my MythTV system, and
using a
PVR-350 as output, since my back-end doesn't have any AGP slots, a
single PCI slot I can free up, and I wanted to include at least one
more tuner. I guess I'll need to stick to my separated solution for
now.
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<pre wrap="">If you've got an onboard VGA out, just use a transcoder box such
as an
Audio Authority...
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<pre wrap="">Yeah, but does that do hardware MPEG-2 decompression? That's one big
reason for going with the PVR-350 or an nVidia card, otherwise I
would have done exactly what you mentioned (not that I've never
thought about getting such a converter before)
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The Unichrome integrated video offers at least some form of mpeg-2
decoding assistance, not sure how much or how well it works.
Eventually I'd like to see hardware mpeg-4 decoding, as I believe the
world will move towards that more space-saving family of compression
algorithms. I've read that the satellite carriers are going to move
towards mpeg-4, which makes sense as fast CPUs for set-top boxes get
cheaper.
Is anyone aware of a device similar to a MediaMVP that can de-
compress mpeg-4 ? Right now that's one thing keeping my system on an
mpeg-2 standard.
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You will likely see mpeg4 hardware decompression in the OpenChrome
drivers at some point this year. You will however need the newer
(CN400 or newer) chipset boards (SP series or newer) to have the
hardware to take advantage of it.<br>
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W<br>
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