[mythtv-users] inexpensive frontend?

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On November 17, 2003 02:11 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > Yes, exactly...  I think you missed the point.
> > The PVR250 takes nothing to record, however to play the file
> > it takes more than my P2-450 can do with any resolution over 512x480.
> > I can record at any resolution I want, but can't play it.
>
> Shouldn't the video card help with displaying the mpeg2 video?

Depends on the video card and its drivers. My AIW 128 pro has iDCT (IIRC) but 
the drivers don't support it (gatos drivers) :( So all I get from it is 
hardware scaling and color space conversion (yuv->rgb).

> -Chris


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