[mythtvnz] Upgrade for Freeview HD

[Douglas Pearless]

For TV Out I use an ASUS NVIDIA 9400M for VDPAU , it has SVGA, HDMI, component, S-VHS and composite (need differnent cables to get the last 3).  Currently it is driving an old (15+ years) TV at 1024 x 768, while sourcing HD Freeview.  The CPUs barely goes over 10% as the GPU is doing all the work.  

Cheers  

Douglas.  

Quoting Tim Stonehouse <tim.stonehouse at gmail.com>: 

> 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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