[mythtv-users] S-Video Output PVR250 or PVR350???

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Niklas Brunlid wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:10:50 -0500, John Kuhn <kuhn at razorsys.com> wrote:
>
>> it surely doesnt hurt to have both.. the 350 is superior quality and
>> lower overhead for decoding (since it will be then using the onboard
>> decoder) but its uses a rather slow frame buffer.. playing
>> dvds/divx/games elese is rather slow and jerky..
>
>
> I've read this a couple of times now, and in my case it just isn't 
> true - I watch DVD:s (through Xine) and video files (through mplayer) 
> on my 350 often, and the framebuffer is definately fast enough. I get 
> some tearing, particularly (sp?) in slow-panning scenes and action 
> sequences, but I suspect that it isn't speed but rather framesynching 
> that's the issue.


How big is your CPU and how much of it is in use when you do so?