hi all. i have been interested in setting up a myth box for quite some time but as i've seen a number of people do, i wanted to kick the tires a bit. that being the case, i went out and bought a ati tv wonder pro card, put it in my p2 450 mhz box, installed a fresh fedora core 3 and followed jarod's howto. well, i got everything pretty much done but i am having some issues.
at first i set up my card as an mpeg2 card because i thought it did onboard mpeg2 encoding but that gave me ivtv codec errors. i checked the list and found that this could mean i had a v4l card so i changed my setup and now i get live tv but it is very jerky and my cpu is maxed. i think this means that my cpu is doing the encoding/decoding and can't keep up. is that true? does anyone know if the ati wonder pro does onboard encoding and if so, how do i get that working? so, eventhough i don't have a setup that is working very well, i've decided to take the plunge. it looks from my reading that most people use the pvr-250/350. i believe the difference is that with the 250 you need to plug the audio out of the card into the audio in of the sound card and with the 350 you don't. is this true and if so, why? my next question is about video. from what i understand, the video comes in via the cable, into the tv card, from there it gets processed/buffered and sent out via the graphics card. is that accurate? is the graphics card an absolute necessity? do i need to look for a graphics card with some sort of "normal" video out like s-video or component video? actually, can someone please explain how the video and audio is handled? specifically, how do things need to be wired to and from the computer. finally, the video is pretty awful when viewed on the screen. why might that be? thanks! sorry for the long post. -- Peter Abplanalp PGP: pgp.mit.edu
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