> You may likely need a video card to boot successfully and to setup the > system first, but depending on motherboard it may boot without it once > the system is setup. It is less likely that you'll need one with > TV-Out though.
I have spare video cards lying around for both system setup and circumventing any motherboard issues, these video cards just wouldn't have TV-out. > You can also run MythTV on a regular video > card's TV-Out, but use the excellent decoder on the PVR-350 to > playback live TV and recordings (best of both worlds approach) Would this not mean two output sources, and therefore two different inputs on my TV? And then either way, is the quality of playback with the PVR-350 and its MPEG-1/2 decoder something I can't find in a video card's TV-OUT? Unless its too expensive, I'd assume not. In which case would it then be best to play all video regardless through one output? I guess what I'm also asking is that if I do want the most versatility for the future (newer codecs, eventually DVD playback, other myth front ends, and whatever else who knows) would I be limiting myself if I used a PVR-350 as my only TV-out. -john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 3:48 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 clarification On 6/17/05, John Hanauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the intial stages of my planning for my summer05 project, building a > MythTV box. > > Question, though ... > > PVR-350: Is the TV-OUT used only for playback of MPEG-2 video? Or can I > send all video output (linux console, mythtv menus, mythtv video (mpeg 1,2, > or even 4), etc) through this port? Would this mean I don't need a video > card? John, You can run the whole X shebang over the TV-Out of the PVR-350 if you want (instructions on Jarod's guide) Currently best video performance is with MPEG2 video, but John Harvey is working on getting accelerated video playback working smoothly on the 350 for all manner of video types (like an xv video card) so for standard definition video (inc DVD) this should be fine. You can also run MythTV on a regular video card's TV-Out, but use the excellent decoder on the PVR-350 to playback live TV and recordings (best of both worlds approach) You may likely need a video card to boot successfully and to setup the system first, but depending on motherboard it may boot without it once the system is setup. It is less likely that you'll need one with TV-Out though. If you are wanting to use the system for HDTV playback though, you will need a powerful system with a decent video card with TV-Out though. HTH, Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
