[mythtv-users] PVR-350 - Should I send it back?

[Carlos Fernandez Sanz]

Why do you need to transcode anything? I assume it's possible to use the output for whatever you want to.... I hope so, as I'm getting mine January 6th (we don't share gifts on December 25th in Spain but Jan 6th) :-) 

I'm good in linux and I program for a living, but I can't make video drivers.... and if it's not possible to use the PVR350 to display non-MPEG stuff it's definitely a driver issue.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jason Giddens 
  To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
  Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 15:07
  Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 - Should I send it back?


  Ok, 

  For Christmas my wife was wonderful enough to buy me an Asus Pundit, CPU, Memory and a Hauppauge PVR-350.  I had given her the hardware list after reading the Mythtv web page, and lurking on the list for a while. 

  Now that I have gotten the devices, I am wondering if I should send in the 350 and get a PVR-250 instead.  Here is why I may want to: 

  - I am a Linux Newbie-  I know there are excellent docs out there to help me, but I am pretty much a rank beginner and the 350 seems like I need to be a little more "leet" to handle it. 

  - I want to watch Divx shows-  The main reason for the MythTv box is so that I can watch shows I download from BitTorrent on the big tv.  Secondary purpose is to augment our Tivo. 

  So.  I know that the 350's output is beautiful, but I also know that I will have to transcode the Divx files into MPEG2 everytime I want to watch them. 

  What does the list think? 

  Jason Giddens 
  jgiddens_ at _ bigfoot_dot_com 


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