[mythtvnz] Upgrade for Freeview HD

[Tim Stonehouse]

Thanks for the reply, I had not taken the mpeg2 to 4 shift. So the
only option would be to use the Nova-T and new video card. That's a
shame.

2009/5/3 Nick & Ann Read <nick.read at engineer.com>:
> Tim Stonehouse wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've a P3 933 MHz happily running using a Hauppauge PVR-350. As this
>> card has TVout and does the decoding for output to TV, there is little
>> CPU usage.
>> So, the next generation...
>> I've bought a Nova-T with the idea of using this as a receiving card,
>> while retaining the 350 as the TVout.
> The Nova-T will pull down the DVB-T transmissions with practically no
> CPU load, easily handled by the P3 I would have thought HOWEVER your 350
> can't play back the MPEG4 related recordings that this will produce, for
> two reasons. Firstly they are not MPEG2 (which the 350 can handle) and
> secondly they are not standard definition (SD) but HD and the 350 can't
> handle HD... you would Nvidia VDPAU and I don't think you can make that
> work on your P3 motherboard.
>
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