I'm about to order the components for a system that will run MythTV (as well as do other things), and I have a few questions.
I'm trying to decide between the PVR-250 and the 350, or maybe even something without hardware encoding. I was thinking that I would store video in a format that allows for higher compression, e.g. MPEG-4. So is there any point in using a card which does encoding in hardware? In fact, would using one of the Hauppauge cards mean that video would need to be decoded and then re-encoded, and would this cause a loss in quality? For playback, I believe the 350 can only decode MPEG-2 in hardware. Can it display video that is decoded in software? Or would such video need to be played through a separate video card? I'm not very familiar with Dolby audio. Is support for this something that people find useful when using MythTV? Thanks for any tips, Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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