Jon Reynolds wrote:
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
The output quality on the 350 is very good for SDTV, but beware: With
the 350 it will be difficult or impossible to get BIOS/bootup messages
and to play back any video not captured by the 350 (or in standard SD
MPEG-2).
This means no HD, no Divx, no Xvid, no MPEG-4 of any kind, etc.
If you're only planning on playing back SDTV that you capture, the 350
will do nicely. If you care about transcoding, DVD archiving, etc, the
350 will probably disappoint you.
Most likely you'd be better off going out through an nvidia card (gf4
/ fx). You should be able to get one for $50-$60 that has a heatsink
(rather than a fan) and outputs through DVI and S-video as well as VGA
Wayne,
Where did you find that statement? Do you have the link still or
remember the date of the post? I thought I had heard talk on the list
about this becoming a non-issue. I will post the question back to the
list and ask again because I need to make sure that the epia boards
won't have the same problem.
Thanks,
Jon
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The original post:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-March/128637.html
Then, a reply comment:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-March/128644.html
"I posted recently on using my PVR-350 again after using Nvidia for a while. I
had said that the 350 displayed a perfect interlaced picture, while using the
framebuffer/Xv, not using the hardware decoder. Also, CPU usage was only
around 20-25% on the Celeron 1.3GHz that I had it in while playing back a
recording. Therefore, it will be able to play any video format just fine,
including Divx, Xvid, etc. The Xv driver for it has come a long way and
really performs remarkably well now. Thanks to John Harvey for that one!"
Please keep us aposted of your progress. We need to share our
knowledge/experience.
This is the only way we can survive on the islands. Wayne
