> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith > Sent: 24 October 2005 21:03 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Someone with a PVR-350 please spot-check > thisstatement from the MythTV HOWTO > > On Monday 24 October 2005 15:38, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > Finally, the card does not support any 3D functions, making it a poor > > gamer card. > > Accurate. It's a framebuffer with an MPEG2 decoder. Nothing more. > > > Non-MPEG-2 content will be displayed on the PVR-350 output using > > framebuffer features, placing a large load on the host CPU. > > Accurate. There has been work done which allows you to spit raw YUV data > to > the card's framebuffer which can drastically reduce the CPU load, but yes, > anything other than MPEG2 will have to be decoded on the host CPU. > I think this could be worded better. Just because it's a framebuffer doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a large load on the CPU. So something like :-
The X-driver for the PVR-350 support playback using Xv efficiently but does not support any other 2d or 3d acceleration. For some application this may place a large load on the host CPU, some will run without any problem and others (mplayer, xine, xmame etc.) should be configured to utilize the Xv interface. John _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
