Hardware for pvr

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:43:30PM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
> I am currently using a cheap AthlonXp 1600, with a Hauppauge Hardware MPEG 
> card, and it works extremey well running MythTV or Freevo. Look into the 
> hardware database for othe configurations people are using.
> 
> Pay the extra for a Haupauge card, the 250 or 350 PVR cards are best.
> 
> I also recommend ( what will be in my next PVR ) a VIA EPIA S motherboard. 
> 
> Look at http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_sp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=261
> 
> on board MPEG2 & MPEG4 decoding reduces cpu usage.
> 
> -snip-
> 
> The VIA EPIA SP mainboard introduces the VIA CN400 Digital Media chipset to 
> the Mini-ITX form factor for the first time, extending the feature set of the 
> VIA EPIA Mini-ITX family to include support for DDR266/333/400 and even 
> greater digital media performance on the rapidly emerging new generation of 
> smart digital entertainment devices such as PVRs, set top boxes, and media 
> centers. Targeting x86 consumer electronics devices, the Chromotion CE Video 
> Display Engine of the S3 Graphics UniChrome??? Pro IGP graphics core features 
> hardware-based MPEG-2 decoding and MPEG-4 acceleration for smooth playback of 
> the most popular video formats,together with Adaptive De-Interlacing and 
> Video De-Blocking advanced video rendering functions for unequalled image 
> crispness.

And do they provide documentation and/or drivers for using those
features under Linux?

Lennart Sorensen
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