[mythtv-users] Luck with PVR-350 card and video out?

Andy Long aslong at uark.edu
Thu May 27 21:32:13 EDT 2004


Thank you for your input everyone.  I'm thinking that I'm going to go w/ a
GF4 MX400.  Any input on which one is best?  I've heard that some work
better than others for video out...

Thanks again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Chmura" <Bill at Explosivo.com>
To: "Coax" <coax at cornernet.com>
Cc: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Luck with PVR-350 card and video out?


> On Thursday 27 May 2004 04:27 pm, Coax wrote:
> > > From what I have seen it has always been with inserting data into the
> > > video stream (like OSD) or something.
> >
> > Well, technically, you're not REALLY inserting data into the decoded
video
> > stream.  Technically, the decoding process happens, and they use the OSD
> > memory to "layer" the stuff over the top of the decoded video.  This is
> > what happens when you use the EPG, or the ff/rw stuff, or anything that
> > throws video on top of your decoder's output.
>
> EPG? OSD? OMG...  how to keep track of all this...
>
> > > I have a radeon 9000 in the machine, but don't want to lose the
hardware
> > > decoding !  Besides chicks dig the whole extra monitor thing <g>
> >
> > lol :) Well, give and take, I guess.  Which is more viable.. A system
that
> > uses a bit more processor time doing software decode (with MPEG-2, it
> > hardly takes anything to decode it if you have a fast processor like a
> > current AMD Athlon XP or something)  Takes a lot of processor time to
> > encode it in software, tho!) - or crashes due to inadequate driver
support
> > for the PVR-350's decoder and OSD..  :) :)
>
> I liked the idea of being able to pause tv, but I barely watch live tv so
I
> tend to use Myth more as a Super VCR than anything.
>
> >
> > Chicks dig extra monitors?  Boy, maybe thats what I've been doin' wrong
> > then!  (My girlfriend, who lives with me and has to put up with the
> > PVR-350's TV-out, would be overjoyed just to have stable Myth, let alone
> > an extra monitor! *rotfl*)
> >
> > Chad
>
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