[ale] [ot] pvr using mythtv

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> Haven't tried mine yet as the only s-video capable tv is downstairs and
> I'm just getting going on this pvr thing, but afaik these cards (in my
> case, nvidia geforce 2) do the same as your ati, and you can use it to
> output tv as well.  I assume it's tv run on top of X...almost as if
> running xawtv on your machine and displaying on your tv...but as I say,
> haven't tried it yet.  I'm assuming they use something to make the display
> larger and fullscreen.

I agree with you on this point, as I know xawtv has a fullscreen mode, 
but I don't see how this is going to provide you assistance in a pvr 
solution.  I wouldn't expect that you'd want to use the output generated 
in this way to be your source of recording.

Then again, I may be completely clueless.  My expectation of a pvr 
solution would be to take the input and write it straight to a file.

> 
> Calvin can probably provide more input.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> 
>>Is that the purpose of the svideo on those cards?  My ati card has an
>>svideo out, but it's used like another monitor device, in that I could
>>stick a tv on the end of it use something like xinerama to send X output
>> to it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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