[mythtv-users] Hauppauge Media MVP

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:35, Christian Hack wrote:
> Anyone seen or got one of these:
> 
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6144692803.html
> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.pdf
> 
> US$99. Has hardware decode of MPEG1/2 streams as well as MP3 -
> unfortunately no MPEG4 it seems so it's only really sutiable for DVB /
> PVR250 / PVR350 customers. PAL or NTSC output including component and
> RGB. Runs some sort of linux.
> 
> Would obviously require a lot of hardware hacking and reverse
> engineering to get it to work, but it could be a really nice little
> frontend for MythTV if the two can be interfaced.
> 
> It needs a server on a PC somewhere else so it's probably pretty dumb,
> but if you could get the MythTV backend to do this, that could be cool.
> I think I might get one just to play with.

Nifty little thing, though the component video out seems to be a bit of
a waste, since it won't handle anything larger than full-rez NTSC or
PAL... They mention mpeg2-ts support, but what good is that if it can't
decode it in real-time?!? (In the case of a full 1920x1080 mpeg2-ts,
that is)...

Not wild about that "requires Windows" part either. ;p

--Jarod

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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