I also originally had lots of problems - and I mostly put it down to problems with the ivtv drivers. Now I'm working with the latest ckennedy ivtv drivers (I cant remember the version number but its right up to 0.3.X or something) and it turned out that my real problems were a faulty hard drive (which was new) - now I have to return it under warrantly and maxtor want me to run a windows test application on it which is a bit of a problem because all my desktop type computers with ide connectors all run linux but that’s another pain alltogether.....
Anyway now my PVR350 is working really well and the PIII 500Mhz computer that is the Myth box doesn't even use 1% CPU time when playing back mpeg2 recordings so I think that the pvr350 can offer a real cost saving (if you have an old pc lying around)- although I agree that the UI is a bit slow all right. Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eggert Thorlacius Sent: 28 January 2005 16:07 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Why use PVR 350 TV-out? (Was: X and PVR 350) 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. Eggert --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004
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