[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 17

[Jay Goldberg]

Hi Benjamin

brutt+news at bloomington.in.us wrote:
 > Does anyone have a PVR-350 running well at 720x480 (NTSC) resolution
 > on an old/slow machine?  I'm figure with the hardware encoding and
 > decoding, it might do OK on my Celeron 433 (256 MB of RAM, Geforce2
 > video card that supports XVideo extension) machine.
[...]
 > Currently, I have a PVR-250 running MythTV on my system, but am
 > thinking of replacing it with a PVR-350.
[...]

I'm running MythTV on a PIII 450 with a PVR-350 and an older ATI
3D Rage Pro (the GATOS drivers work great with it, BTW).  I'm using
the TV Out on the PVR-350 for watching TV and decoding MPEGs - at
full NTSC resolution.

When I'm watching Live TV, the system's using something like 12%
CPU, which is just the disk buffering.  If I run:

  dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k

...then CPU usage is effectively 0%!

I haven't yet found a way to watch DVDs through the PVR-350's decoder
(anyone?), but it's smooth on the ATI, and uses about 87% CPU.

The hardest part is that I can't use fullscreen visualizations in
MythMusic :)

	Cheers
		Jay

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jay at ransdoc.com                                                             .
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