RE: HTPC - what card?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

Will a hardware MPEG-2 decoder be of any use if I'm not recording?

I suppose the other benefit of the 250 is the IR capability - which is
impo=
rtant for me.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kim Wall
> Sent: 07 June 2006 00:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HTPC - what card?
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> Paul Gale wrote:
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> > Any suggestions as to video/accelerator card I should go for?
> > Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 seems to be recommended a lot =96 is this
still
> > a good card to go for for what I need?
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> The PVR250 is an excellent card, and well supported in MythTV, but
> you've already stated that you don't need recording capability (which
is
> all the 250 does).  The obvious options are therefore pretty much any
> Geforce card (the Nvidia drivers are by far the best for TV output on
> Linux), or perhaps the WinTV PVR350, which contains a hardware MPEG2
> decoder (with composite/s-video output) as well as an encoder
equivalent
> to that in the PVR250.
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> The Geforce option is going to be considerably cheaper, and probably
> easier to configure (I believe getting the OSD to work with the 350 is
> non-trivial, though I've never used one myself).
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