[mythtv-users] Luck with PVR-350 card and video out?

[Bill Chmura]

You'll find tons of stuff in the archives on this...  

Personally from my experience - in short:

Pros: 
* Very low encoding / decoding cpu usage
* Mpeg2 so it can go right to DVD
* Nice remote : )

Cons:
* OSD problems (some lockups) - I use an external monitor for that stuff
(this is an ivtv problem)
* Myth will mark commercials, and autoskip, but cannot remove them
* DVD watching from the mythbox is choppy (I've seen rumors this can be fixed 
though)


Of course I am a raving lunatic...  But overall, I would make the same buy 
again if I had it to do over...


On Thursday 27 May 2004 09:08 am, Andy Long wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie about to build my first mythbox.  I've read mixed
> reviews on the success of getting the PVR-350 to work for video out.  Can
> anyone relate their experiences or reccomendations on this?  Does it work
> well?  Is the video-out quality good when compared to, say, an Nvidia
> Geforce 4?  I'm planning on using either Fedora Core 1 or Core 2 (no great
> affinity to either right now, so if one would be better than the other for
> this card, i'd be happy to use it).
>
> Thanks.
>
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