[mythtv-users] WinTV PVR Cards

[Graeme Blackley]

I've got a virtually silent EPIA box with no fans, and a very quiet Seagate
Barracuda drive with acoustic management enabled. There is no way I could
have a solution this quiet running a Athlon or PentiumIV solution. The EPIA
is way too slow to do software decoding, and doesnt *really* have hardware
decoding capabilities (rather it has "hardware assisted decode" routines -
useless). The decoding on the PVR350 gives a excellent picture, and uses
about 15% CPU on my slow ME6000 EPIA.

I'm currently using WindowsXP because the decoder isn't supported (yet)
under Linux, but I'm hoping that will all change soon. The ivtv guys have
indicated there intention to get the decoder working in their driver.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Empfield" <oldwizeman85 at hotmail.com>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:43 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR Cards


> Hi there.
>
> Finally got MythTv up and running.  Right now all I can do is view the
> Weather, but that is ok.  I still have to configure the rest and play
round
> with the program has well.
>
> Anyway, I would like to purchase a video caputre card for this system
> because I think I am going to stick with MythTV.  Would I be better off
with
> the WinTV PVR 250 or should I go with the PVR 350?  I know that the
hardware
> decoder in the PVR 350 is not supported so would purchasing this one be a
> waste of money?  Will the decoder to be supported soon?
>
> Thanks.
> Rob
>
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