[mythtvnz] Upgrade for Freeview HD

[Douglas Pearless]

Nick Rout wrote:
> 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
>   
Yep!
>   
>> 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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