I am trying to spec out a new myth box, and I thought it would be nice to have hardware decoding.
I would be using firewire output from a comcast cable box, and I can't seem to find out what type of output is used. Is it just a regular mpeg2 or what? I did a little research and nvidia has something called "PureVideo", which says something about mpeg2 acceleration. I'm not sure what sort of benefits this would with a fast machine anyway. I would probably be using a 3.0GHz P4 with 2GB of ram. I tried myth a couple of years ago using pvr-150's for encoding, and just doing the decoding in software (with a 2.4GHz P4 and 1GB ram). However when moving really fast through the guide the video playback would skip and I had to tell lirc to skip a few keypresses to work around it. Basically I just want to get something that works "flawlessly". _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users