[mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV and HDTV

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:19 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> My bad Isaac, I thought there was still more to do with it aside from
> the OSD stuff. 

All that's left to do is the OSD and some code to select it (the current stuff 
is always on, and as that only works for mpeg2 playback...)

> Is it something that will scale upwards better, i.e. it 
> uses 30% cpu on PVR-x50(5 mbps) files, but will also use 30% cpu on a
> pchdtv(19.2 mbps) file, whereas a software decoder would jump up to
> maybe 90%? Or is it a matter of the TI cards only supporting some of the
> features whereas the MX cards support the full set? Or does xvmc just
> suck?

Don't really know.  Thought about buying a MX card or a cheap FX to test 
further, then decided I really didn't care _that_ much =)

Isaac