[mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)

[Scott Harris]

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> > >
> > 
> > If one were to get the 5200FX or other Nvidia card, and 
> couple it with 
> > a PVR-350, could you use the PVR for the signal decoding and then 
> > output via the 5200FX?  I'm assuming if this is possible 
> then a lot of 
> > us could solve our DVD problems by setting output for DVD 
> to the 5200.
> > 
> There is no easy way of getting a decoded stream out of the 
> 350 but I am getting really close with YUV support for the 
> 350 which means I can add Xv support to the 350's x driver. 
> Since there are multiple YUV buffers we should be able to get 
> smooth playback of dvd's fairly easily at that point and I 
> suspect the audio sync problems should be easy to solve or 
> vanish as well. 
> 	All I need is some time now to get something that should work.
> 
> John
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Your ideas intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Seriously, would love to see this working.  Chris Kennedy just posted 
today that he has this working as well:

"This allows YUV decoding to work, you can now do things like cat
/dev/video32 > /dev/video48 on your pvr350."