Re: [mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
On Monday 17 January 2005 16:06, Brandon Beattie wrote: > 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 Last weekend I tried an FX5700 and was hoping for better quality video than my Matrox G550. I've been trying mythtv and xine (all possible output modes) and was amazed that my old G550 has better image quality than this rather new FX5700. I switched back to the G550 and take for granted that the maximum resolution I can get is not as large as the FX5700 can do. Quality means more to me than resolution and the Matrox card clearly won that in my case (CRT projection with 2m*1.5m screen so you'll see all artefacts easily :-) ). xvmc using the FX5700 seems to have best quality but I need gamma correction (which I found was not possible so this option wasn't suitable for my setup). I was actually surpriced by these results as I thought that the FX5700 would win in quality over the G550. Unfortunately it didn't unless it needs some serious tweaking. Both cards where compared with same resolutions and refresh rates. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
Brandon Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:50:22AM -0700, Comments wrote: >> 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. [snip] >> 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 OK, I can understand this. However, whenever I research information on XVMC (which I assume you suggest when you mention the nVidia cards), I see that it's current support sucks, that it crashes when doing ff or rew and that no one is working on fixing it. So, is is true that there's no way to make a MythTV front end machine for HD that has low-end processor requirements along with hardware decode? Thanks, -- Marc Christensen http://www.mecworks.com http://blog.mecworks.com http://gallery.mecworks.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
Brandon Beattie wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:50:22AM -0700, Comments wrote: Anyone tried this? Is it possible? Yes, many of us have. A pvr-x50 will Not decode HD. The PVR is very picky what format it decodes. Transcoding arbitrary video sources to the PVR acceptable format is still somewhat of a holy grail.Everybody knows it should be possible, but nobody has found it yet.Boy, I wish I knew more about video formats... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
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? -- Marc Christensen http://www.mecworks.com http://blog.mecworks.com http://gallery.mecworks.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
