[mythtv-users] Video Card Usage

[Rod Smith]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 13:02:11 Timothy M. Admire wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am in the process of putting together a MythTV system with a Hauppage
> PVR-350 in order to do the encoding and decoding of the MPEG-2 video.  I am
> wondering if, since this card does the encoding and output of the video,
> will the video card itself be doing much work?  My GeForce card has an
> onboard fan, but I'd like to disconnect that if the card is not going to be
> using much horsepower.

Note that support for video output via the PVR-350 is slated to go away at 
some point. Thus, although this solution will work in the short term, it 
might not be wise to plan on using this configuration for the long term.

-- 
Rod Smith
http://www.rodsbooks.com