[mythtv-users] How usable is the G400-tv

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 21 April 2003 01:11 pm, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> Now that there is hardware compression support in Myth-TV I want to go
> that route.  I started looking at the PVR-250 and it is pretty
> expensive.  How many people have had good success with the g400-tv?
> Does it support seeking in the video file or does that not work?  I can
> pick up a g400 much cheaper and if it works good I may go that route.
>
> Also, how supported will this card be in the future, it looks like
> everyone is going with the pvr-250 since Isaac has one.

There's been support for hardware mjpeg cards (like the g400-tv) for quite 
awhile now.  They're not really worth it, in my opinion.  The created files 
are _huge_, and it takes a lot more cpu to decode than other formats (my 
p3-550 can barely decode 320x240 mjpeg files in real time, but it happily 
plays back 640x480 mpeg4-based .nuv files), which quite completely offsets 
the cpu saved by the hardware encoding.

Isaac