Problems with DivX with hardware decoding

[phuturetech]

Hi,

Up till now I've been using software decoding for recordings and everything has worked as expected - I can playback my gbpvr recordings, divx, etc.

Today I switched to using my PVR-350's tv-out for recordings. This is working great (picture quality is way better than software decoder). But, when I playback divxs and switch to the tv-out on my gfx card I get a black screen and no audio?

Switch back to software only and everything is fine again.

Now i thought if you used the 350's tv-out it would only play mpeg2 and playing divx would go through the gfx card tv-out. Is this how its supposed to work or am I being incredibly stupid?

Cheers,

Scott

[sub]

No, if the PVR350 tv out is used, you can only use the PVR350 tv out. It wont dynamically switch between them.

[phuturetech]

Ahh well - it was worth a try.

Cheers for the quick answer sub.

[Guest]

I'm still not fully understanding this all, could someone enlighten me...

I wish to use the DVI output for connection to my plasma. Does this meen I can't use the hardware decoding of my PVR350?

See, I don't want to use scart / SVHS - it is inferior to DVI but am i losing something

(told you i didn't understand this!

Cheers - steve.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]I wish to use the DVI output for connection to my plasma. Does this meen I can't use the hardware decoding of my PVR350?

Thats correct.

The hardware decoder on the PVR350 is hardwired to the svideo/composite tv out connections on the back of the PVR350, so no - you cant use your PVR350s decoder to display via your graphics card's DVI.

[-x-]

Sub,

DivX support is something for the Wish List I guess:
Being the proud owner of a MVP I do like the fact the MVP Server does support to play back divX to the MVP. But other than this I like the GBPVR much better!

My understanding is that the server makes use of divX decoders insalled on the server to convert the divX on the fly to a MVP compatible format (MPEG, I assume) which then is streamed to it.

Can you imagine to apply the same scheme to MPV/PVR350 in GBPVR in the long run? until then I need to shut down your cool application and power up the MVP's server service and restart the MVP... to watch DivX movies.

Cheers - X

[sub]

Maybe in the future, but its way way down the priority list, so you probably wont see it anytime soon.