[mythtv-users] The benefits of freestyle in conjunction with a pvr-350?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 05 December 2003 14:10, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2003 01:43 pm, IvanK. wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm putting a second card in my system.  I already have a 350 that
> > does the decoding and the tv-out.  The new card is a freestyle that
> > has, as of yet, an unsupported decoder chip.  The question is: once
> > ivtv supports freestyle's decoder, would that offer any
> > improvements above and beyond the decoding support the pvr-350
> > provides?
>
> It is highly doubtful that the decoder will ever be supported on non
> pvr-350 cards.  It's not hooked up to anything.
>
> Isaac

I read a while back on the ivtv list that they were hoping eventually to 
be able to have the Freestyle/Rev1 decoder usable as a virtual 
framebuffer type setup... i.e., have it decode to a virtual framebuffer 
whose contents could then be output via some other mechanism (Xv, 
DirectFB, etc).  Has this been deemed impossible?  Just curious; I 
don't have one of these cards, anyway.  I should really subscribe to 
the ivtv list, anyway, since I'm expecting my M179's any day now...

-JAC