FM Radio / MP3 Playback to the TVout

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I need a reality check for an idea of mine:

When I started using my PVR350 with the great piece of work GB-PVR is I hooked up the PVR350 card to the TV in the room next door So I could either watch TV myself or work on the PC while someone else watches liveTV or one of the video recordings in parallel. What I love about this is that the GB-PVR in cooperation with the Hardware encoding causes almost no cpu-load so working in parallel to recording or watching TV is a blast.

Firing up the net-radio, FM Radio or Music Library Plugins got me a bit disappointed because the sound was not available on the TV (as this is the device I am interacting with) but only on the PC speaker in front of my computer screen which is connected to the standard sound card/onboard sound output.

There seem to be two schools of thought from my current discussion within the board.
1) The one suggests to use a loopback cable piping the PVR's output to the Line-In of your soundcard and connecting the (mixed) sound output of the PC to the TV.
2) The other (me, myself and I) wants to keep the soundcard/onboard sound out of the loop and instead pipe the audio as an MPEG stream to the TV using the PVR350 hardware MPEG decoding support. In general this allows the same destination to playback the audio and potentially mix it with more or less related video footage (e.g. sound visualisations or image galeries). This would allow to have two independent sound outputs on the PC als there are in case of a PVR350 at least two different image/video outputs making the PC actually multi-user enabled.

So what's your take on this?
Please mark your choice and in case that's not enough lemme know in detail what you think by adding a reply. Any ideas on what to display while the sound is playing.

Cheers - X

[sub]

On the third option - you can already listen to music on the MVP while you use the other functionality (like pictures plugin). MP3s (including net radio and fm radio) are played directly out of the MVP audio out (via the MP3 backing file).

I dont get your point for including the MVP.

[jquinlan]

I agree with sub, the third option is misleading since it already works this way.

The MVP can already do what you are asking for so just get an MVP.

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Sorry about mixing up some things.
I did to few know about the MVPs capabilities.
I might get one (and a loopback cable) in the near future as we are moving and the PC won't be as close to the TV as it's right now. The poll and responses convinced me.

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