On 8/02/2007, at 9:02 AM, Jeff Simpson wrote: > I really like the idea of the PVR-350, the idea that the > hardware can do all the tedious decoding and save the processor for > the real work. The problem is not many people use the card, and as > such, support for it is lacking. It's the same reason I wouldn't want > to use an alpha or sparc machine. The architecture is great, but > software support is terrible.
I run ivtv and mplayer on an Alpha EV67 (667MHz) architecture. Generally, not a problem. The architecture is indeed great, but while the software support is not as good as intel/amd, I wouldn't call it terrible. I did buy a PVR-350 because a wasn't sure how fast the Alpha would be, and at the time, the Alpha was headless. I was never impressed with the video out on the PVR-350. Even when I just cat a recorded mpeg file back through /dev/video16 (or which ever device node is the output decoder - I forget now) the video quality was shite. Interestingly S-video was worse than composite. I now have a radeon graphics card on the Alpha and video display through that is far superior, and the Alpha can keep up with playing most DVDs - I have only one that it is too slow to play, and one other that it can't keep up with on certain scenes. So now having a PVR350 is a bit pointless as I don't use the decoder. Should've got a PVR500. Cheerio Michael. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
