MythTV hw question

[Thomas Charron]

On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Dave Johnson <dave-gnhlug at davej.org> writes:
>
> > That's probably fine for a backend, but may be a bit slow for decoding
> > for the frontend.  I've noticed cpu power requirements for playing
> > are perportional to the bitrate of the MPEG2 so you can always crank
> > down the bitrate setting when recording to find what it can handle.
> But wouldn't the 350 be able to handle that decoding for me?  That's
> why I was thinking of getting that card, it can do both.


  Correct.  Either that or one of the Via EPIA boards can use hardware
decoding.

> At least on my PVR-250 you can set any width/height/bitrate you want
> > and it'll do MPEG2 hardware encoding on that.  You should have no
> > problems cranking them way down just for the experimentation phase.
> > At least that'll give you time to play around with the functionality
> > even if the video quality isn't great.
> Okay, that's good to know.  I guess I'll start looking for a card now.
> Can anyone here recommend a decent vendor for Haupage cards?
>

  I believe the PVR-350 is the only capture card with solid hardware
decoding capabilities supported under Linux.  I could be wrong, but it's the
only card based solution I've heard of.

  Thomas
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