On 17/10/05, Andy Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this on the Hauppauge site > (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html > ): > > "WinTV-PVR-350 contains a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 > hardware encoder and hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder. > WinTV-PVR-350 uses the hardware MPEG encoder for > watching live TV, for pausing live TV and for > recording. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the > PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard disk (for > pause and record) and simultaneously decoded in > software for display on the PC screen (in all modes). > When playing recorded video onto an external TV > monitor, the on-board hardware MPEG-2 video decoder is > used." > > Sounds like the hardware decoder only kicks in when > you're using a TV set for display. Is that really the > case when using MythTV and PVR-350? I only plan on > watching tv on a computer monitor. In that case does > PVR-350 offer any advantages over a cheaper model such > as PVR-250?
Nope. AFAIK there's no way to use the decoder other than playing through the tv-out. N. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
