[mythtv-users] PVR-350 output support being dropped!

[Warren]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
>   
>> On Mar 23, 2006, at 03.58, Ian Forde wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 01:50 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Oh piffle! I was considering condensing my MythTV system, and  
>>>> using a
>>>> PVR-350 as output, since my back-end doesn't have any AGP slots, a
>>>> single PCI slot I can free up, and I wanted to include at least one
>>>> more tuner. I guess I'll need to stick to my separated solution for
>>>> now.
>>>>         
>>> If you've got an onboard VGA out, just use a transcoder box such  
>>> as an
>>> Audio Authority...
>>>       
>> Yeah, but does that do hardware MPEG-2 decompression? That's one big
>> reason for going with the PVR-350 or an nVidia card, otherwise I
>> would have done exactly what you mentioned (not that I've never
>> thought about getting such a converter before)
>>     
>
> The Unichrome integrated video offers at least some form of mpeg-2  
> decoding assistance, not sure how much or how well it works.
>
> Eventually I'd like to see hardware mpeg-4 decoding, as I believe the  
> world will move towards that more space-saving family of compression  
> algorithms. I've read that the satellite carriers are going to move  
> towards mpeg-4, which makes sense as fast CPUs for set-top boxes get  
> cheaper.
>
> Is anyone aware of a device similar to a MediaMVP that can de- 
> compress mpeg-4 ? Right now that's one thing keeping my system on an  
> mpeg-2 standard.
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You will likely see mpeg4 hardware decompression in the OpenChrome
drivers at some point this year.  You will however need the newer (CN400
or newer) chipset boards (SP series or newer) to have the hardware to
take advantage of it.

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