[mythtv-users] Video Card Usage

[Mitch Gore]

On 10/15/07, Timothy M. Admire <tim.admire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
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> Timothy M. Admire
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that would work but i would get atleast a 5000 series card so you can use
the most recent drivers from nvidia.  The 4 are legacy now.

mitchell
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