I gave up on HD playback using a PC before I even tried. But there
are options.
I am currently using the I-O Data LinkPlayer 2
http://www.iodata.com/usa/products/products.php?
cat=HNP&sc=AVEL&pId=AVLP2%2FDVDLA
But there are many more options (hardware HD playback).
The problem is that is doesn't talk directly with MythTV, so you have
to do something about that. The most common solution is to just link
to your Myth recordings. The LP2 gets its show information from a web
server (wizd and swisscenter are two Linux compatible servers).
Also I was able to run Mythfrontend on my Intel Core Solo Mac Mini
and watch HD recordings and Live HD. This was a 512MB base model. It
worked better than I expected, but not 100%.
John
On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
On 3/27/06, John Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might check out www.digitalconnection.com
I am using 2 DVICO FusionHDTV3 with the DVB driver in a Myth box.
I think the latest version is the FusionHDTV5.
John
I just bought a HD5000 air2pc HDTV Capture card
(http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=46), and thought I
would share my experiences with it:
Unless you have a very recent video card and a very fast CPU, video
playback sucks, whether live or recorded.
Before you jump on a HDTV capture card, play the clip at
http://pchdtv.com/downloads/tst.tar in mplayer or xine on your target
system. (Note that it's an mpeg stream, not a tar file as the url
implies).
I thought my Athlon XP 3000+ with 512MB ram and rinky-dink video card
(ATI 7500 and Nvidia GeForce 2) would be fine, but it chews all my CPU
and chops like crazy. I just bought a new GeForce 6200A with HDTV out
and it seems to be able to play that clip ok, but I haven't had a lot
of time to really play. My cpu usage still seems to be very very high
though. The nuts and bolts of it is: you need a really good mpeg
decoder to do decode hdtv signals in realtime.
As for the broadcast flag, I don't think any hardware got made that
supports it. If it did, the mfg jumped the gun.
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Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com
Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com
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