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[J. Donavan Stanley]

Peter Valdemar Morch wrote:

> J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan-at-jdonavan.net |Lists| wrote:
>
>> You're better off with two 250s and an Nvidia card (or an Nforce2 MB 
>> with built in TV out).  The 350 is going to lock you into std 
>> definition output only, plus it's next to useless for anything other 
>> than MPEG2 playback.
>
>
> As I've just learned from the ivtv-devel mailing list, the built-in 
> TVouts don't interlace the output, so they'll look inferior to the 
> output from the 350 during high-action sequences such as action 
> flicks, sports games etc due to interlacing artifacts. (Thread 
> "PVR350: TV-Out - newbie questions...")


That's a driver issues that's due to be fixed.  Using kerneldeint and 
avsync gives fantastic results with the 4363 drivers, better than my 
Tivo that's for sure.  Plus I can play tux racer and other games, 
playback MPEG4 content and all that fun stuff.