[mythtv-users] PVR-350 on slow or old machines

[Boyd II, Willy]

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>From: brutt+news at bloomington.in.us 
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>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:28 AM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 on slow or old machines
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>Does anyone have a PVR-350 running well at 720x480 (NTSC) 
>resolution on an old/slow machine?  I'm figure with the 
>hardware encoding and decoding, it might do OK on my Celeron 
>433 (256 MB of RAM, Geforce2 video card that supports XVideo 
>extension) machine.  But the specs on the PVR-350 from
>
>http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm 
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>say it requires a Pentium III-600 for full-screen viewing.  I 
>really don't know if my machine will be fast enough, even with 
>the PVR-350. I can upgrade my machine to a Pentium III-700 for 
>certain, and possibly higher (I'm using Asus P3B-f 
>motherbord), but of course that costs extra $$$.
>
>Currently, I have a PVR-250 running MythTV on my system, but 
>am thinking of replacing it with a PVR-350.  My current setup 
>is fast enough to encode at 720x480 using the hardware 
>encoding, but quite a bit too slow to decode without lagging.  
>So I have to use one of the lower resolutions, which is unsatisfactory.
>
>So, let's hear from some PVR-350 users.  Is anyone using it on 
>an older machine?
>-- 
>Benjamin

I seem to recall reading that Windows doesn't even support hardware decoding
(?)  If that's true then those Windows-centric specs aren't too surprising.
But with hardware decoding I'm thinking you'll be ok with the 433.  But I
don't own a 350 (yet), so...

- Willy
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