[mythtv-users] PVR-250 worth the upgrade?

[Will McCracken]

I recently built a mythtv box using the PVR-250 and an nVidia GeForce
FX5200. With the built in encoder in the 250 and the decoder in the
graphics card, I only see the CPU (Athlon XP 1800+) use at about 1 - 2%
while watching live tv, recording , or playing back. This type of setup
would allow you to use a much slower CPU. I previously had a system
setup (under windows XP with showshifter) using an ATI all in-wonder
card and the picture quality and performance were terrible. The 250 is
worth the money just for the picture quality in my opinion.

-Will


On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:27, Ben Curtis wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm about to assemble my MythTV box, and have a question about the capture
> card.  I searched the mailing lists' webpage, but couldn't find a specific
> answer, just that upgrading would save CPU.  I currently have an AverMedia
> bt848 chipset card, and will be using an Athlon XP 2100+.  Would there be
> any substantial video gains from purchasing a PVR-250 to do hardware
> encoding over the use of the AverMedia with software encoding?  While not
> bad, I'm not too impressed with the AverMedia's capture abilities thus far
> (in a Windows environment, haven't moved it to the Linux box yet).  I'm
> pretty anal when it comes to video quality, so I want to do the best I
> can.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> 
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