> If I were to buy again I'd probably go for the pvr350 and get the tv > out and hardware mpeg decoder, its worth the little extra money in my > opinon.
According to http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html, the 350 is not necessarily worth the cost. Begin quote: Another popular capture card is the WinTV PVR-250's big brother, the PVR-350. The additions of merit are the inclusion of an FM Radio Receiver, MPEG-2 Decoding in hardware and S-Video Output. It certainly sounds like a solid upgrade. Unfortunately, there's an important fact that doesn't really show up in the feature list for the product. The S-Video output is only for MPEG-2 streams. What that means is that it's not going to be able to drive your OS desktop on your TV. Certain HTPC/PVR applications have included support for their OSD/menu system for the PVR-350's s-video output but this is something you should research thoroughly before purchasing the PVR-350 solely for this reason. Given the low cost of a video card like an NVIDIA FX5200, I'd recommend buying the significantly cheaper PVR-250 and using your AGP/PCIe video card to drive your s-video output. End quote. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
