On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:50:22AM -0700, Comments wrote: > In order to keep my hardware costs down as much as possible, I was > looking at a variety of possibilities in hardware configurations. > > I was wondering if having a PVR-[23]50 along with one or more HD-3000 > cards would work to decode the HD streams. A PVR-350 is a lot cheaper > than a new MB, processor and memory for a Myth box. > > The goal would be to use the encoding (probably not used with an HD > stream) / decoding properties of the PVR card, and not it's tuner. > > Is there a stand-alone hardware (en|de)coder card that would be better > suited for this configuration? > > Anyone tried this? Is it possible?
Yes, many of us have. A pvr-x50 will Not decode HD. You'll have to get an nvidia geforce FX series card, the most popular is the 5200
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