[mythtv-users] PVR350 in MythTV Box: WINDOWS XP DUAL-BOOT WORTHWHILE?

[James L. Paul]

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On Sunday 18 April 2004 03:21, Darren Enns wrote:
> While many are putting PVR350 cards into their MythTV boxes for the
> benefits of MPEG encoding/decoding and TV tuner abilities, not many talk
> about using the same configuration to digitize external analog video
> (from VHS, 8mm, etc.) and then creating DVDs from that material.
> Comments would very much be appreciated for 'most-bang-for-the-buck'!

Well, MythTV is mainly a Television-oriented system, hence the "TV" in 
"MythTV". ;) If you want to capture from a non-TV video source, there is 
generally no need for most or all of what MythTV does.

I actually find it more difficult to use MythTV to capture from a camcorder or 
VCR, it's much simpler to just use a general capture application. I sometimes 
even just use dd or cat.

> Along those lines, I also have not seen much comment on people having
> Windows installed onto their MythTV boxes (with PVR350) and then being
> able to use the MPEG editor and DVD-creation software that is supplied
> (or available) by Hauppauge with the PVR350.  Is this worth the $150
> (CDN) or so when building a MythTV box?

If most people are like me, their MythTV boxes are dedicated to TV use. It's 
pretty inconvenient to reboot your living room TV to start up windows just to 
capture some video from some other device, then reboot back to Linux and 
MythTV. You can certainly do that if you want to, but I'd personally use a 
different computer since I consider my MythTV box dedicated to TV use. That's 
all I need, to miss recording one of my wife's programs because I rebooted 
the box into Windows to do something else. ;)

> Quick comments would be appreciated since I will probably be ordering
> hardware in the next day or two.

I got 3 PVR-250MCE cards for about $80 each a few months ago, and am extremely 
happy with the bang for the buck. I'm considering a PVR-350 but so far 
haven't felt a need for one, my GeForce II GTS card drives my TV just fine 
and looks better than my Tivo so I'll probably wait until the 350 driver 
support matures more.

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