[mythtv-users] questions about new hardware

[Boyd II, Willy]

No, more likely I missed something... I'm not on that list, I only rarely
search the archive if something's broken.  But regardless that's why I said
maybe -- the chip is there, I just wasn't aware of the status of the driver.
If decoding is important to you then I guess get the 350.  But then again
with a reasonably modern machine I'm not sure what the big push for it is.
Things like divx video or the myth interface itself, would seem like they
need some kind of hack to output through a *mpeg2* decoder, right?  Is one
supposed to use a switch of some kind to change whether you're using say, a
geforce4 or your 350 for tv-out, depending on whether you're watching TV
recording or something else?

- Willy

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Dormann [mailto:wd at pobox.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:18 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] questions about new hardware


At 08:41 AM 9/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>As to your second question, looks like the Hauppauge PVR-350 would be 
>your best bet.  The 250 will work just fine as well, but if you want 
>the possibility of mpeg2 decoding (that you mentioned), get the 350.  
>(Or an old, first revision 250, maybe... those has decoding chip as 
>well).

I thought that the consensus on the IVTV mailing list Re: decoding on an
early revision PVR-250 is "don't count on it"

Did I miss something?

-WD