[mythtv-users] PVR-250 and Xbox

[Kirby Vandivort]

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I see that Amazon has the PVR-250 pretty darned cheap. Now may finally
> be the time :)
> 
> Does anyone have a PVR-250 working with an Xbox frontend? Does the Xbox
> have enough power to view the higher quality files without any jumps?

Works fine for me.  I typically work with bitrate=6mBits,
maxbitrate=16mBits.  The default is 8/16, but I can't tell any
quality difference between the two.  You can basically do
bitrate / 2  to figure out how many gigs it will take per hour, so right 
now I'm at around 3 gigs /hour.

If the xbox hard drive does much else, I do get skips.  So, no compiling 
in the background or anything.  I'm running gentoox.



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