[mythtvnz] Upgrade for Freeview HD

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Douglas Pearless
<Douglas.Pearless at pearless.co.nz> wrote:
> For TV Out I use an ASUS NVIDIA 9400M for VDPAU , it has SVGA, HDMI,
> component, S-VHS

I assume you mean s-video

> 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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