[mythtv-users] Getting VIA graphics to work, or buy a PVR-350?

Matt Collins matt at clues.com
Wed Oct 20 16:11:15 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:58:34AM -0400, John Kuhn wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >The -350 will have problems playing anything other then a mpeg2 stream so 
> >my
> >suggestion is to buy a graphics card based on a nVidia chipset. My personal
> >favorite is the FX5200 as the most bang for the buck.
> >
> > 
> >
> >
> why does everyone have this misconception? it will playback any file 
> format fine with the ivtvdev driver... i play divx/xvid/mpeg2/mpeg1/dvd
> 
> all fine

Because all the docs google references are hugely out of data, aas are the
sourceforge pages and FAQ's.

Unless you extract the information needed from friendly folk on this list
or read a few months worth of backmessages its very hard to find the
actual state of play ;)

Matt


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