[mythtv-users] OT: Buying pvr-350 in SF bay area
Louie Ilievski
loudawg at comcast.net
Thu Mar 16 18:43:26 UTC 2006
> The output quality on the 350 is very good for SDTV, but beware: With
> the 350 it will be difficult or impossible to get BIOS/bootup messages
> and to play back any video not captured by the 350 (or in standard SD
> MPEG-2).
>
> This means no HD, no Divx, no Xvid, no MPEG-4 of any kind, etc.
>
> If you're only planning on playing back SDTV that you capture, the 350
> will do nicely. If you care about transcoding, DVD archiving, etc, the
> 350 will probably disappoint you.
I posted recently on using my PVR-350 again after using Nvidia for a while. I
had said that the 350 displayed a perfect interlaced picture, while using the
framebuffer/Xv, not using the hardware decoder. Also, CPU usage was only
around 20-25% on the Celeron 1.3GHz that I had it in while playing back a
recording. Therefore, it will be able to play any video format just fine,
including Divx, Xvid, etc. The Xv driver for it has come a long way and
really performs remarkably well now. Thanks to John Harvey for that one!
~Lou
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