[mythtv-users] Sigma Designs X-Card

[James L. Paul]

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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:15, Will Dormann wrote:
> At 10:57 AM 12/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:39 am, James L. Paul wrote:
> >> > 	Of course, the PVR/350 has the encoder and decoder in one card, but
> >> > you can't use both at the same time.  The X-Card only costs $99.00 to
> >> > get a second decoder with the necessary Y-Pb-R outputs to drive an
> >> > HDTV directly.
> >>
> >> Wow! Is this true? I highly suspect the assertion that the PVR-350 can't
> >> encode and decode at the same time, wouldn't that mean for our purposes
> >> it would serve as a TV-out card only and not be available as a capture
> >> tuner?
> >
> >	Well, unless the hardware on the PVR/350 is very powerful, I would think
> > it could not do both operations at the same time on the same card.  It
> > would be able to do ONE or the other, but not both simultaneously.
>
> Don't make assumptions and state them as fact.

I think his confusion stems from not understanding that the PVR-350 has a 
hardware encoder and a hardware decoder instead of some more general purpose 
processor. Apparently it's "very powerful" and he was unfamiliar with it. :)

>
> -WD
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