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| Author: | Jason [ Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Is a sound card necessary with a PVR-350? |
I am going to have front and backend running on the same box and I have a Hauupauge PVR-350. My motherboard does not have a built-in sound card. I am working with KnoppMyth R4. Do I need a sound card in order to capture/play live video, or playback recorded video, or can I use the audio-out of the PVR-350? Once setup, I will only have a TV (no monitor) connected to my MythTV box. If I can use the PVR-350 for sound without a sound card, how do I configure it as such? BTW, I am having the black screen when trying to watch TV problem, and from the reading into the following thread, I think my problem is related to not having a sound card setup correctly: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=434 Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Jason |
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| Author: | cesman [ Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:29 pm ] |
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Yes, you need a sound card. How else will you hear what is being played? I don't think MythTV would workout can sound card.... The 350 isn't a soundcard or is it a true video card. |
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| Author: | Jason [ Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:02 pm ] |
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Thanks, I was unsure since the MythTV documentation states that a sound card is not necessary when encoding with a encoder supported by ivtv, but it didn't state anything when decoding. Now to see if we can get our soundcard to work with alsa and knoppmyth. Thanks, Jason |
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| Author: | se7en [ Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:24 pm ] |
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I don't think a soundcard is needed if all you do is play files supported by the PVR-350 (ie. MPG2), as the onboard decoder will handle this. |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:25 pm ] |
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well yes the onboard decoder would handle it, but where would you output the audio to? svideo cannot carry audio. You have to have an audio out port somewhere. |
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| Author: | devnull [ Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:11 pm ] |
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for those of you trying to answer questions about this, do a little research before saying something that may not be true. the pvr-350 does have an audio decoder and outputs for said decoder. but as mentioned, its only gonna do any good for you on formats that the pvr-350 decoder supports, ie mpeg and mpeg2. the pvr-350 *should* make for a nice all in one solution for tv type pvr functions, but it is a complete pain to get all the functions on the card to work. trust me, i have one and ended up installing it into my windows box and pretending its a pvr-250 for now. i do plan on trying knoppmyth with it though. |
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