Re: [Marvel-linux] MythTV

[Mark J. S. <ms...@ea...>]

On January 1, 2005 01:06 am, Wade Berrier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get the g400 tv to work with MythTV.  Anyone out there
> have any luck?
>
> Wade Berrier
>
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Yeah, I've done it, but its not really worth the effort.  

My biggest problems were getting mythtv to use the right input.  Though in 
retrospect I may have been loading mythbackend before I loaded the marvel 
drivers.

Also, mjpeg is a terribly bloated codec.  I would record at fairly low 
quality, and still get HUGE files.  And these files wouldn't play back on a 
Athlon XP 2000+ frontend without stutter.  

I never got mythtv to do hardware decoding with the G400+RRG.  I seem to 
remember that you can encode and decode at the same time, so this would make 
livetv rather painful.

You may be better off getting a PVR250.  I sure was.

Mark