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

[Coax]

> From what I have seen it has always been with inserting data into the video
> stream (like OSD) or something.

Well, technically, you're not REALLY inserting data into the decoded video
stream.  Technically, the decoding process happens, and they use the OSD
memory to "layer" the stuff over the top of the decoded video.  This is
what happens when you use the EPG, or the ff/rw stuff, or anything that
throws video on top of your decoder's output.

> I have a radeon 9000 in the machine, but don't want to lose the hardware
> decoding !  Besides chicks dig the whole extra monitor thing <g>

lol :) Well, give and take, I guess.  Which is more viable.. A system that
uses a bit more processor time doing software decode (with MPEG-2, it
hardly takes anything to decode it if you have a fast processor like a
current AMD Athlon XP or something)  Takes a lot of processor time to
encode it in software, tho!) - or crashes due to inadequate driver support
for the PVR-350's decoder and OSD..  :) :)

Chicks dig extra monitors?  Boy, maybe thats what I've been doin' wrong
then!  (My girlfriend, who lives with me and has to put up with the
PVR-350's TV-out, would be overjoyed just to have stable Myth, let alone
an extra monitor! *rotfl*)

Chad