[mythtv-users] Where is decoding done?

James L. Paul james at mauibay.net
Sun Dec 28 15:41:32 EST 2003


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On Sunday 28 December 2003 10:21, Jelle Kalf wrote:
> The decoding is done in the frontend machine which displays the
> videosignal.
>
> If you're planning on using a frontend / backend system. I'd advise you to
> take PVR250 cards for the backend. (Unless you're planning to watch tv on
> it as well)
>
> If you plan to watch tv on the backend as well, make sure you have a
> powerfull enough machine (pentium III 1200mhz and up).
>
> The pvr350 is excellent if you want to listen radio (PVR250 has no radio
> tuner) and / or if you want to output to a TV with the hardware mpeg
> decoding chip that's onboard.

Can you please point me to information about using the radio tuner in the 
PVR350? It's my understanding that it completely unsupported.

>
> Jelle.
>
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:16:16 -0500
>
> stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I'm planing to build a back end/front end sysem with oen back end, and
> > perhaps multiple front ends.
> >
> > Now that I've figured out that the 250 and 350 cards have hardware
> > encoidg, and the 350 addes hardware decoding, I plan on puttin 2 to 3
> > cards in the backend. So, if I plan on displaying on the monitor, and
> > don't need TV out, should I use 250's on the backend machine? Or is the
> > decoding dne there? In which case I would want 350's there?
> >
> > --
> > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
> > neither liberty nor safety."
> > 						-- Benjamin Franklin
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