[mythtv-users] Re: PVR-250 worth the upgrade?

[Will Dormann]

At 04:36 PM 10/3/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>The only hardware MPEG decoder boards I know of are the DXR3, PVR-350 and
the 
>on-board decoder on the Via Epia M10K.  There are probably others, but I'm 
>pretty sure that none of the consumer video cards (i.e., GeForce, etc) have 
>hardware decoders.
>
>Perhaps you're getting this confused with the XvMC support for the GeForce4 
>MX?  This is an output enhancement only; it doesn't do any decoding.  My 
>understanding is that it can help reduce with jitter in high-motion scenes, 
>or something along those lines.


I've heard that the Geforce4 MX cards have hardware MPEG2 decoding.  Here,
for example:
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/nvgf4ti-gf4mx.shtml

I'm not sure what the truth behind that is.   Or whether a Linux driver
would enable this MPEG2 decoder.
Anybody have some insight into this?


-WD