The Skinny on the P]-[/T 350 tv-out

[rampy]

good question.

When the m10000 arrives at byopvr central (ok, ok.. at my day job's site) I'll give it a shot.  

It seems like it could work ASSUMING the drivers don't conflict... and I wouldn't think that they would.  I was going to say that it would mean that the "local" playback would be software based BUT the VIA m-series boards have a built in MPEG decoder... of course I'm not an EE so there may be a fly in the ointment of trying to run two different mpeg decoders concurrently, but then again everything may play nice together...

Sorry for the slightly wishy washy non-answer... We are still building up the "test lab" slowly with different components to try combinations like this that users suggest/want to know about.    Maybe Frosty will see his thread bumped back up and try it and tell us...

One interesting new note: SnapStream is also working on overlay/OSD support for BeyondTV with the PVR350 so at least more and more commercial options (besides SageTV) are addressing this OSD concern AND of course active progress is being made on the MythTV, IvTV drivers for those in linux circles =P

rampy

[Anonymous]

Hmm... I thought snapstream said they'd couldn't get tv-out to work because of fundemental issues with the mpeg decoder or something.  One more option is always good :)  

As for simultaneous TVout on on the pvr 350 AND M10000, it works.  I have the svideo adapter on the mobo, that converts it to composite, and only shows black and white on the TV (a known issue - something about combining the individual signals from svideo cable into the lower-count composite cable).  The svideo input on the TV is currently being used by the pvr 350 tv out.  I can switch back and forth when I have to.  Which isn't often, BTW.

[frostillicus]

forgot to log in.  that one right above here is from me.

[Anonymous]

Hi I'm new here,  Just ordered my M1000 and should arrive soon.  But my question is why can't you just use the WinTV PVR 350 to capture and encode the signal then output the video from the S-Video out on the board such as an M1000?  Since it should output everything on the desktop or the current view you should be able to get the menus and what not.  

I'm going on a hunch here but I suspect that the PVR 350 can't display the desktop and so forth because its technically not a graphics card and not getting or cannot processes the desktop feed.

- Ian

[frostillicus]

Hi I'm new here,  Just ordered my M1000 and should arrive soon.  But my question is why can't you just use the WinTV PVR 350 to capture and encode the signal then output the video from the S-Video out on the board such as an M1000?  Since it should output everything on the desktop or the current view you should be able to get the menus and what not.  

I'm going on a hunch here but I suspect that the PVR 350 can't display the desktop and so forth because its technically not a graphics card and not getting or cannot processes the desktop feed.

- Ian

You are correct, I posted earlier my thoughts on this.  I suspected Hauppauge just designed this 350 to display TV...out.  And it does it well.  Any additional functionality with it would be icing.

 Anyway regarding why you can't use the s-video out on the M10000:  You can, it just sucks compared to the 350 quality.