[mythtv-users] PVR-350

[David Schmidt]

[top posting only since Aaron did, so it's not even more a mess]

As a fellow 350 owner, I'd have to agree.

I'm happy with my decision at the time to go 350 since I didn't want
to upgrade my CPU and it (P3/450MHz) was reported as borderline at the
time.  I've since found it can play real time to the framebuffer, but
not time stretch past 1.1X.

If you have anything over 450MHz, and I can't imagine you don't,
you'll be better off with a real graphics card with a good TV out.
The TV out on the 350 is great, but difficult to configure and it runs
rather hot (the card in general).

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Aaron Klein <klein.aaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO as a 350 owner I wouldn't buy it again over a 150.  The only
> difference I can see is the MPEG decoder for the tv out.  But you have
> outlined its limits.  A cheap graphics card with SVid out will have
> just as good output.  If you only had mpeg recordings you could put
> this card in a very low end system as a frontend but thats about it.
> For recording any other hardware mpeg encoder card will work just as
> good.
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
>> Is a PVR-350 worth getting? Some eBay deals put it within range of other
>> 150/250's being sold and I am considering getting it, but reading this:
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_PVR-350  I am not sure.
>>
>> I use my desktop PC as a frontend and wouldn't be using the 350 for anything
>> but recording/playing live tv + recordings, same as I use my current 150. I
>> see that the 350 is unable to output OpenGL-- I don't understand how that
>> would affect me, since my desktop PC has an 8800GT that mythfrontend is
>> using and of course openGL for the menu works fine.
>>
>> Are the 350 concerns only for someone who's using the backend as a frontend?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>> Bob
>>