<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Apart from this particular bug the quality using Xv or<br>mpeg decoding is similar and the cpu usage is similar
<br>so there is no real loss in using Xv and the gain is<br>that we don't have to maintain 2 sets of code.</blockquote><div><br>Really? I hadn't thought of that as a possibility. I assumed that since we were no longer using the MPEG2 decoder and stuck with the awful framebuffer that even with XV it would still never be as good as a normal video card. I figured that the high-quality of the PVR-350 was due to the MPEG decoder and thus would be gone if you used just XV. I guess I haven't done a side-by-side comparison of XV vs MEPG2 vs nvidia svideo out
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes this is true but i am not convinced (haven't<br>looked at it) that i can use the svideo output and the
<br>vga output of a single nvidia card from 2 different X<br>sessions so i would need to go and buy a second VGA<br>card to replace the 350 i allready have. Also the<br>output quality is typically lower as well.</blockquote>
<div><br>True, you would have to "go out and buy" another card, but I mean for newcomers to myth - it is cheaper to buy a video-out card and a PVR150 than it is to buy a PVR-350, and you'll get better results with the combination, thanks to the poor hardware support for the PVR-350 (it's the nature of the beast).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So the main thing is really that most people have<br>working hardware and don't want to change it and have
<br>to buy new hardware.</blockquote><div><br>Agreed - I certainly don't want to run out and replace my PVR-350 (my nvidia card used to have TV-Out, but it no longer works thanks to some bad grounding in an old apartment). I just wanted to make sure that I got the word out to the community that PVR-350 support is going the way of the dodo, and it's best to jump ship before investing in one of these cards. It's too bad hauppauge doesn't make a PVR-350 that just has normal X output (nvidia?) on the svideo overlayed with the MPEG2. That would be a beautiful card: OpenGL Menus, transitions, MPEG2 and wonderful TV out.
<br><br> - Jeff</div></div>