[olug] Hauppauge PVR-250 & PVR-350

[Shaughn]

I have a KnoppMyth box with a Hauppage Lite or something, it's a 6 year 
old card. It's running a p4 1.5 with 368m ram, with nvidia drivers loaded.

the tv fearture doesn't sync the sound with the picture (video) 
correctly, this most likely is due to the tv card being so old, but 
having hardware encoding would help with this alot.

Terry Bradshaw wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 01:25, Richard Smith wrote:
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>>You'd save some money by just getting the 250. The main difference with
>>the 350 is to give you hardware decoding. If you have a decent cpu, then
>>there's little point in having hardware decoding on the tv card since
>>the 250 still gives you hardware encoding. One other thing, I don't
>>believe the tvout on the 350 gives you the actual computer desktop, just
>>the actual video being played.
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>This answers my question, and this should have occurred to me before,
>but it didn't.  
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>I had guessed that the video output would be all the Hauppauge card
>would display, but it hadn't occurred to me that the actual MythTV
>interface would never display using these outputs.
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>I am leaning toward the 250 now... it will definitely save me
>money...although I will have to spend more for a video card with TV out.
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>By the way... if anyone remembers, I had lost out trying to buy that
>Antec case from Brian.  I ended up getting a case from Newegg for $18. 
>It even has a slide out motherboard tray.  It came with no power supply,
>but I had one available.
>
>Not near as nice as the Antec, but not too bad looking.  A heavy beast,
>however.
>
>I'm still making this a budget machine so far.
>
>Terry
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