[mythtv-users] pvr-350 decoder output
Dan Wilga
dwilga at MtHolyoke.edu
Mon Dec 13 20:07:56 UTC 2004
At 7:44 PM -0600 12/12/04, Paul Miller wrote:
>Can MythTV output to the PVR-350's decoder output channel?
Yes.
> Can it
>overlay text and images over a playing DVD or live TV?
Yes.
> I'm
>wondering if it's worth getting the 350 rather than the 250 or 500.
Unless you've got a video card with TV-out that you know for sure
will work, I'd say the 350 is the way to go.
>What about driver support? Anyone have any experience with this
>device?
I, and many other people, use it regularly. You end up using the ivtv
framebuffer device driver for X. It's too slow for games, but works
very well for TV. I highly recommend you use S-Video over composite
output, though.
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