I don't understand. I have the 350 and I use the default gentoo ivtv driver and I don't see anything wrong with the output. Is it only the tv output that's affected, because I just watch on my pc? Sorry for being a noob.
On 2/10/07, Joe Niffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scott Reynolds wrote: >On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:04:56AM -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: >> >> >> >>>So in summary, the PVR-350 *does* work, it just isn't as fully >>>supported as say, any nvidia or ati tv out card made in the last 5 >>>years for 1/4 of the cost. The video encoding is well supported, just >>>like the 150/250/500, it's just the output that's flaky. In my own >>>personal opinion, having owned a PVR-350, I would say that I'd be >>>better off owning a 150 and an nvidia geforce card with TV Out. >>> >>> >>I diagree. A PVR 150 is about 85 EUR, for 140 EUR you have a 350. That >>difference does buy you a ati or nvidia card with tv out (cheapest is >>around 40 EUR), but doesn't buy you a CPU fast enough to do the >>decoding, especially when you have some old hardware lying around. >> >> > >I absolutely agree with Erik's comments, both those above and what I >haven't quoted. I'd like to add a couple of things. > >First, I did have an nVidia card, originally. On a slow system this >means enabling XvMC, which "works" -- but in my experience it behaved >even worse than how Jeff described the PVR-350. Stuttering on simple >jump back/forward operations was common, and would sometimes cause X >to hang. Fast forward and rewind were painfully slow to respond. I >eventually gave up and returned the card. However, I kept the power >supply needed to accomodate the video card. This was a significant >hidden cost! > >Second, though there's significant overscan on the PVR-350, the color >saturation is unquestionably superior to the nVidia card I had. It >wasn't even a fair comparison, really. For that reason alone I have >stuck with using the 350 in my frontend, and will continue to do so >until I'm forced to do otherwise. > >--scott > >_______________________________________________ >ivtv-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > > I too main use my MythTV as a PVR and the output is just superior.. My system board has only two PCI slots so I am using on for capture/encoder/decoder and video out. Using Knoppmyth, I have two issues, 1) I have no right audio channel with my on board sound, previous verison of Knoppmyth worked but not the version from fall of 2006. The other is using the 350 output and I can not get Closed captioning to work, with the web page setting of us PVR350 out. Thanks _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
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