[mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

Ant Daniel antdaniel at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 14:45:51 EDT 2005


On 10/18/05, Andy Leung <angelflow at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- "Simpson, Richard" <Richard.Simpson at wgint.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > >
> > > Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV
> > on
> > > my computer monitor but want to make use of
> > hardware
> > > MPEG decoder. Do you know if MythTV can use such
> > MPEG
> > > decoder (such as the one in Nvidia geforce) for
> > VGA output?
> > >
> >
> > "Play those videos onto your PC screen or your TV
> > set with the WinTV-PVR-350's hardware MPEG decoder."
> >
> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm
> >
> > Richard.
>
> That's strange. In another part of the hauppauge site
> (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html)
> -
>
> "The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus,
> where it is stored on the PCs hard disk (for pause and
> record) and simultaneously decoded in software for
> display on the PC screen (in all modes). When playing
> recorded video onto an external TV monitor, the
> on-board hardware MPEG-2 video decoder is used."
>
> Which implies that the MPEG decoder is only used for
> TV-out, while VGA out uses software decoding. That's a
> contradiction to the passage you quoted. I wonder
> which version is correct.
>
>
>
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Maybe it's grammatical.

Play those videos onto your PC screen, or your TV set with the
WinTV-PVR-350's hardware MPEG decoder.

In which case both statements are true, play them on the monitor or use the
hardware decoder to play on the tv.
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