[mythtv] FW: High quality (HD)TV output

Wim Fokkens wimfokkens at planet.nl
Sat Aug 6 04:39:44 EDT 2005


This looks more like a dedicated video player card than a good general
purpose graphics solution.  Not that it wouldn't be nice to support it
as an option, of course.

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Namens Preston Crow
Verzonden: vrijdag 5 augustus 2005 20:34
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Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv] FW: High quality (HD)TV output

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:19 -0700, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> Wow, that thing looks cool.  MPEG2-HD support, as well as MPEG4,
> MPEG4.10 (H.264) and WMV9.

> > Have the developers of MythTV ever considered using this card? 
> >
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Dxr6?PHPSESSID=fce91ae9b21689bb93ba826
0dca4adda

English discussion:
http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5343

Obvious question:  How well will this work with MythGame?  Can I play
things like Tux Racer with reasonable performance?

I dont think this is such a obvious Question. Because this not meant to
replace the vga card it sits just next to it. You can always swith to your
vga output to play game etc.


This looks more like a dedicated video player card than a good general
purpose graphics solution.  Not that it wouldn't be nice to support it
as an option, of course.

Yes it is and that is exactly the strengths of this solution. If tried
several projects: Tvedia www.8dim.com with xcard, VDR with Technotrend
premium Card's video output, And MythTV with TV out on Nvidia VGA card.
Currently in terms of video quality MythTV get blows away by the other
projects. A dedicated Video output combined with a hardware video decoder is
what's missing in MythTV. (yes I know I can buy a PVR 350 but this solution
is not very future proof, not HDTV capable)

Wim




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