Aaron Aguilar wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:25:36 -0500, Khanh Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:the 250 and 350 are the same as the encoder goes, the 350 has a decoder, using hardware to show the mpeg2 stream, however, i've heard i don't have one, that unless your viewing dvd's or the mpeg2 files, that it really taxes the cpu to show say divx files or anything else. Again i'm not sure but that's what i heard.
You'll want to remember in your evaluation of MythTV that a 650Mhz machine will really affect your experience. I'd suggest getting something closer to 1Ghz if possible. Either way, if you want to watch while that box is recording you'd have to get something that would decode in hardware like the Hauppauge PVR-350.
-Khanh
I know that having a slow machine will affect my experience, but I just want to get familiar with it before I drop a couple hundred bucks more for hardware. So the Hauppauge 250 wouldn't work as well as the 350 you're saying?
Dewey, Can you pause and rewind live tv on your machine? I think Khanh isI run 2 pvr 250's (by the way i bought one off ebay for with shipping and the ir receiver and remote (use different remote) for about 104 us) in an amd 800 machine. My video card is an SIS 315, therefore no extra help with XvMC. I can pause and rewind live tv. I can record 2 shows and watch another. I can even do PIP but that taxes the machine to almost only 6% system idleness according to top. I can watch dvd with xine no problem and record 2 shows. I can watch avi or xvid files and record 2 programs with no problems. Because the tuner on my old card went bad i had to send it back and they sent me a new version card and the one i bought of ebay is an older version card. Both work flawlessly (well for some reason 1 single channel i get no sound on either, but a no name channel so no worries) with ivtv version 0.2.0. Besides the costs of the pvr cards, everything else was like trade ins to my dad for newer machines, and he was just gonna toss most of the stuff, so i gave him $75 for the case 850 and 1 stick sdram 256 and 1 40 gig hard drive. the original pvr cost me like 135, and they replaced it free very nice, the second 104, and another 60 gig hard drive for like $20 off ebay, and i spent like $334. About the price of an original tivo.
trying to say I won't be able to do that with the 250? I bought an
nvidia fx5200 for the video out and a soundblaster card for sound. When I say the Hauppauge cards are hard to come by... go to pretty
much any online merchant and every single one of them have those cards
backordered :(
If you do buy off ebay i don't think to Roslyn cards are supported, i see them being sold there too. Justsearch the ivtv mailing list or mythtv to make sure the one your buying is supported. You want the number on the sticker with the rev number.
Also, in most stores the 150 and 500 have taken over, unfortunately those are not yet supported with ivtv. I hear the 150 for pal is partially supported. Hopefully soon cause i think i saw the 150 for like 70 online somewhere, be nice to have 3 decoders.
Aaron
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