[mythtv-users] PVR-350 & Geforce4 MX440

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 8 01:01:31 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 07 October 2003 22:45, Chad Sutton wrote:
> Keola,
> 
> The PVR-350 doesn't have any graphics card capabilities. Its just a pure
> capture card. Actually if you are going with the GeForce MX440 I wouldn't
> bother waiting on the 350. Just get the PVR-250. It will do onboard encoding
> just like the 350 but it won't do decoding onboard. With the MX440 it won't
> matter all that much though, because that graphics card has pretty good MPEG
> decoding support on its own. 

AFAIK the MX440 HW MPEG decoder is not supported by NVidia's binary Linux 
driver.  Under Windows it can be used by DirectX/DirectShow, I believe.  Any 
care to confirm/deny?

-JAC



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