[mythtv-users] Personal Choices

[Dan Sully]

* Preston Crow <pc-mythtv at crowcastle.net> shaped the electrons to say...

> The specs on the 350 clearly indicate limits to the MPEGs it will
> handle, and those limits are well below an ATSC signal.  (Do the cards
> have anything better than SVideo out anyway?  You can't get HDTV
> resolutions with SVideo.)

No you can't, but I can at least make them a bit better by feeding svideo through my iScan Ultra.

> The GeForce4 MX440 is supposed to be able to do full hardware MPEG-2
> decoding, but the Linux drivers only support the motion compensation,
> not the full MPEG, so it's still CPU-intensive.  Or at least that's my
> summary of a bunch of stuff I've read here.
>
> Even with full hardware MPEG decoding in the video card, you would have
> to use the CPU to do the audio.  My guess is that in theory, you could
> build an EPIA-based system and it would have enough power to do that,
> but not without the non-existant drivers.

The audio should be sent over spdif without any decoding, your reciever should handle that.

I really wish pcHDTV made a "display" card as well.

> My guess is that we'll see an EPIA motherboard in about a year's time
> that has on-board HDTV video.  (Just a guess based on my perceptions of
> the demand for the product and the technical feasibility.)

I agree - I just don't want to wait that long. ;)

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