Re: Are there advantages to using a Hauppauge 350 for MPG-2 display on a monitor?

[John Turnbull <johnrt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 00:20 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote:
> FYI, the lists at ivtv.sf.net are probably a better place for these questions.

Thank you. I will check that out.


> > Now the PVR-250 does have TV out, but not hardware decompression. Would
> > software decompressing be fast enough to record to a VCR on a PIII duel
> > processor at 700MHz with 512 MB memory - assuming that the machine was
> > doing nothing else?
> 
> Actually, the 250 doesn't have tvout. 

Opps, caught me. That was clearly in the specs.

> A dual 700 should be able to
> decode mpeg2. (I used to do it on my k6-2/450)

Good to know. 

> 
> > 
> > Does the PVR-350 offer any advantage with Hardware decoding when
> > displaying on the Computer Monitor.
> 
> Nope, the decoder _only_ goes to the tvout.

Well the 350 is off my shopping list. An extra $60 CDN for TV out to a
TV I do not have and a rather decrepit VCR is not in the works.

> 
> > 
> > The specifications in the Hauppauge page are not clear on this point.
> > 
> > Thank you.  John T

And thank you again.  John T


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