[mythtv-users] Video Card Usage

[Timothy M. Admire]

So would the recommendation be to pickup a PVR150 and a cheap GeForce 4 for
decoding?

On 10/15/07, Ian Armstrong <mail01 at iarmst.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Monday 15 Oct 2007, Dean Harding wrote:
> > Timothy M. Admire wrote:
> > > It was mentioned that the PVR350 support was going away soon... is
> that
> > > for sure, and if so, would that render the 350's decoder completely
> > > useless in the future, or would it just not see any additional
> > > development?  I'm trying to make a good decision here, but I don't
> want
> > > to spend more than the price of a 350 and I also do not want to buy a
> > > new CPU and mobo right now.
> >
> > My understanding of the PVR-350 is that it only works in very limited
> > scenarios (that is, displaying standard definition digital TV). If you
> > want to do anything else (e.g. MythVideo, high-def, etc) then it's not
> > going to work.
>
> Not quite true. Although the PVR350 is capable of MPEG decoding in
> hardware,
> it can be reconfigured to display YUV images instead. It then becomes like
> any other video card that offers a video overlay with hardware scaling.
> The
> only real impact is that the CPU has to decode the video, just like it
> would
> for other video cards. I routinely use MythVideo for watching various
> format
> video files on a PVR350 without a problem. Programs like mplayer & xine
> also
> work fine. It can't cope with hi-def video, but it's not aimed at that.
>
> --
> Ian
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