From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 18:34:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDA216A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:34:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F101D43D46 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:34:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahze@ahze.net) Received: from [192.168.1.5] ([68.209.163.3]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20050202183425.VLLO1983.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[192.168.1.5]>; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:34:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <42011B91.2070101@mykitchentable.net> References: <20050201164641.E64418@atlantis.403forbidden.net> <42011B91.2070101@mykitchentable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v682) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <2B6929F3-686D-4443-A0E9-812399BB6049@ahze.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Johnson Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:34:23 -0500 To: Drew Tomlinson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.682) cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations for MythTV/FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:34:26 -0000 On Feb 2, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 2/2/2005 5:59 AM Adam Maloney wrote: > > >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Steven S. wrote: >> >> >>> For the most part the pvr-250 is plug and play. Most of the tuners >>> are supported so you should be okay. I've not fiddled with source >>> selection, from what I gather from reply's here it seems to be hit >>> or miss, oddly. I would guess it would work. Unless it doesnt. >>> >> That's kind of what I suspected...everyone is pretty sure it will >> work fine, but no one wants to out-right guaranty it :) But unless I >> hear any real negative feedback from others, I think my mind is made >> up on the PVR-250. >> > I've been watching this thread as I am interested in building such a > setup also. Can anyone comment on whether the 350 offers any benefit > over the 250? As I understand it, the 350 also includes a hardware > decoder for MPEG-2 playback. Is this any significant advantage? My PVR > will be based on an 1gz AMD Athlon. > That is the only advantage the 350 has over the 250, hardware MPEG-2 decoder. It doesn't take much CPU power to decode MPEG-2. > Also, I have a wide screen HDTV. Does anyone know of any cards that > support the wide screen HDTV resolutions? Although I've found tuner > cards (no hardware encoder) that support this, I haven't come across > any PVR cards. > There is only a handful that mytvtv supports, and there is no freebsd driver (yet) http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 , scroll down the the HDTV part. If you get one of those cards you will need to get it before July 1st if you are in the USA. After July 1 they will be illegal to sell until they respect the HD broadcast flag. > Thanks, > > Drew > > -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse > Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! > > http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >