Hello
I have been following the thread "X and PVR 350" and other similar threads where people have been having problems with running MythTV on the PVR 350 TV-out, and I can certainly relate to their frustration because I went through all the same problems when I was trying to set up my machine. I finally gave up and instead used the TV-out of my nVidia card and I couldn't be happier. Before, I could not play DivX files or transcoded recordings because my machine was too slow, but now I play them (at about 50% CPU). Plus, the UI is noticably snappier, I don't have to use that funky audio out-> audio in -> oudio out loop and the image quality is IMHO better.
So my question is, why should people setting up their Myth boxes even try to use the PVR 350? Why not just buy a PVR 250 and a e-GeForce MX4000 for the same price?
Note that this is not meant as a flame, I'm just curious.
In my case, it's because my box (a Pundit, old version) has sucky tv-out by itself and not much room for a PCI GFX card now that I have a 350 and 250 in it. Also, I have never had any real problems with the 350 TV-out since I started using the ivtvdev X11 driver - TV works great, DVDs and MPEG4 play at <20% CPU (on a P4 2.4GHz) with no dropped frames or anything (with just a bit of tearing from not being synced with the TV refresh, and even that seems to go away after a while).
The fact that the 350 has PAL (or NTSC) resolution as its one and only native mode helps greatly with picture quality IMHO. Although my next box will not be a Pundit as it gets way too hot - I even moved the HD out to a server and run the root filesystem as well as the recordings over NFS.
/ Niklas
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