On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:07 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: [...]
>However, honestly, the advantages of NVIDIA card you presented are not >overwhelming. The MythTV box will be used for MythTV only, nothing else, >hence OpenGL does not matter, am I right? > OpenGL is currently used by MythMusic (Goom!!!! among other visualizations), and many games that are played using MythGame. Then, there's OpenGL vsync for smooth frame delivery. Also, MythUI--which will probably show up in 0.20--will use OpenGL as the painting backend by default and will be the best reason to have hardware-based OpenGL acceleration support.
While MythGames are not on the list, MythMusic and new MythUI is worth considering. BTW, do you know when 0.20 is planned to be released?
>I don't even have, and don't >plan to have, a regular monitor/LCD at home which I could use :) Signal >(MythTV) goes to TV out only. > >Right now I output TV to my receiver and then to TV. While HDTV is a >nice-to-have, i do not expect to have it in the next 6 - 12 month, while >I will watch TV in the next 6 - 12 months :) Hence having DVI, HDTV and >so on is not the highest priority. I will probably want to add it, > > Yeah, me too. But then again, plans change. I just bought an HDTV--something I've been saying I wouldn't do...
:) yep. I totally agree. You never know. However, while I'd like to have nice (new) tv, trekking in Peru and visiting Mexico, Paris and Toronto takes precedence :)
But, it's your decision to make--I was just trying to answer your question, "whether it makes more sense to get PVR-350 (I don't need dual tuners of 500, since I use cable box) or nice NVIDIA graphics card for better support for linux?" I'm just thinking that if you're truly concerned with the pursuit of video perfection, you'll eventually find that NTSC/PAL--not your video/capture card--is the weak link in the chain. :)
:)
>I am going solely after the picture (TV) quality. I do not mind >proprietary drivers, since I hope I have my compile-from-source times >behind me, starting with the (very) early Linux times. I know, however, >that ATI (proprietary) drivers are worse than NVIDIA ones. BTW, which >NVIIDA card is worth looking at? I don't want to end up with card which >is not supported under Linux at all. > > Like I said, the PVR-350 will provide that placebo effect that makes you believe for sure that you have the best possible picture quality. ;)
yeah ... and since my goal was not to spend any money (so far so good - old parts from unused computers of mine), it seems that graphics card would be a better solution in a long run. And I admit, that software encoding itself, does not have a huge impact on the system, I can live with that.
Mike
Michael
Totally OT rant: I've got to admit that having received this message from you, I'm extremely disappointed with Evolution. I know it's trying to be the Outlook replacement, but do they really want to make it as awful as Outlook? It actually puts a one-celled table containing another one-celled table containing your entire message (and, therefore, the entire body of the HTML page) in the HTML version of your multipart message. And, it does the same HTML-obfuscation that MS FrontPage does--i.e. opening and closing font tags all over (although FrontPage goes much farther than Evolution with the obfuscation). And, I won't even mention the deprecated HTML 4.01 instead of xHTML (or even xHTML-like HTML)...
I couldn't agree more. Not to mention that integration with Exchange is far from perfect, attachments are randomly
changed from a supported type/extension (zip, doc) to a binary (.bin) type. No idea why and whet it happens, however
it's so frustrating that I have to use VMWare with outlook just for the purpose of sending the attachments.
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