[mythtv-users] Why the need for playback settings

[jdonohue654-mythtv at yahoo.com]

--- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 03/24/2008 05:53 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 03:49:05 Marc Sherman
> wrote:
> >   
> >> Because by tinkering, you can get it _better_
> than it gets in windows or
> >> STBs, for some definitions of better. For
> example, by tinkering, you
> >> could get reasonable video on hardware that is
> _much_ less powerful than
> >> required for windows video. 
> > Ummm - no. Absolutlety not. The state of video
> playback on windows is far 
> > better than linux, purely because of the drivers.
> I can get hardware 
> > accellrated video far beyond XvMC and bob2 with
> any cheapo nvidia or ati 
> > card/mobo on windows. That includes H/W accel
> MPEG4 playback which is 
> > impossible under linux.
> >
> > On linux its a stuggle to get XvMC working,
> assuming it even supports the 
> > chipset of the card in question - for example,
> *not* the nv  6100.
> 
> You mean some people actually think that "hardware
> accelerated" video
> (on Linux or Windows) is a good thing?  Hardware
> accelerated is the very
> definition of "one size fits all" (where "one size
> fits all" is always
> "one size fits all poorly").
> 
> PVR-350 does hardware accelerated video playback on
> Linux.  Try
> switching to that and see if you still think it's a
> good thing.
> 
> Mike
> 

It's a good thing. For SD content the PVR-350 output
is very noticeably better than what I've seen with any
nvidia card I"ve used on linux.