<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:david.schmidt.in.dallas@gmail.com">david.schmidt.in.dallas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, of course the 350 can't hardware decode the HD stream, but<br>presuming he has sufficient CPU/main memory, shouldn't Myth be able to<br>treat the frame buffer as a "dumb" card and do software<br>decoding/scaling for 480i display on the framebuffer?
<br><br>I sure hope so, 'cause that was my plan once I get my HD tuners since<br>I still have an SD set.</blockquote><div><br>What do you mean by "dumb" card? Well, probably, if you disable XV for video acceleration. But if you do that, even SD will bog down a computer. Want to get an idea of how slow and bad it is without acceleration? Run mplayer -vo x11 on your favorite file and experience how slow it is. Scaling is a fairly expensive operation which is why it gets farmed out to hardware, which can do it much better much faster. That's what XV does. So yes, myth can treat it as a dumb device and probably do the scaling, but you'll be getting 386 level performance while pegging your CPU. Heck, the power consumption differences alone justify purchasing a better card.
<br><br>Save yourself trouble and buy an nVidia card for your TV out. The 350 just doesn't cut it.<br><br>--Patrick<br></div><br></div>