[mythtv-users] PVR-150 (Model 1045) - $64.99 @ CompUSA + FAQ

[Dennis Lou]

From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
Jay Jarvinen wrote:
>>With the PVR-350 at about $160 these days, to me .. 
>>that's like buying
>>a ~$100 TV-out card, vs $40-50 for a cheapo
>>TV-out vid card.
>  
>
>Not to mention you get more from the cheapo TV-out
vid 
>card:  OpenGL, 
>ability to do resolutions greater than standard 
>definition, XvMC support 
>(which is very nice for HDTV), VGA/DVI output, 
>progressive output, ....  
>Of course, XvMC assumes you buy an NVIDIA (since
ATI's 
>drivers /still/ 
>don't support XvMC)...

XvMC still has its problems.  At least on my
0.18.1 installation with GF4MX, anyway.  OSD
makes everything stutter, skip and tear and I
haven't seen a fix yet (haven't tried
latest svn, though).

-Dennis

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