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<blockquote data-quote="csy" data-source="post: 18564" data-attributes="member: 14097"><p>Hi I'm another Kiwi (Christchurch) using MP with TUL Theater 550 card on a basic HTPC with 1.3GHz AMD CPU.</p><p></p><p>The xmlTVNZ epg works great (I'm keen to have the Christchurch regional channel "CTV" added, which I'll contact them about)</p><p></p><p>MP however doesn't work well with the Theater 550 card on 2 points:</p><p>1. The capture process is very CPU intensive compared to other PVR's (GB-PVR) (MP=50% CPU, GBPVR=10% CPU), and the picture is a bit fuzzy. I suspect this is related to the "YUY2" color space capture setting on the 550 setup, noting that MPEG-2 and DirectX use NV12 therefore real-time transcoding is required.</p><p>2. The quality setting doesn't work on the Theater 550, and instead it is fixed at 5Mb/s. This results in bluring with picture movement due to the cap on MPEG bandwidth.</p><p></p><p>I have temporiarly started using GB-PVR in the interium til the next MP version is released which is suppoed to be true MPEG-2 recording (and hopefully make the quality setting work too).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="csy, post: 18564, member: 14097"] Hi I'm another Kiwi (Christchurch) using MP with TUL Theater 550 card on a basic HTPC with 1.3GHz AMD CPU. The xmlTVNZ epg works great (I'm keen to have the Christchurch regional channel "CTV" added, which I'll contact them about) MP however doesn't work well with the Theater 550 card on 2 points: 1. The capture process is very CPU intensive compared to other PVR's (GB-PVR) (MP=50% CPU, GBPVR=10% CPU), and the picture is a bit fuzzy. I suspect this is related to the "YUY2" color space capture setting on the 550 setup, noting that MPEG-2 and DirectX use NV12 therefore real-time transcoding is required. 2. The quality setting doesn't work on the Theater 550, and instead it is fixed at 5Mb/s. This results in bluring with picture movement due to the cap on MPEG bandwidth. I have temporiarly started using GB-PVR in the interium til the next MP version is released which is suppoed to be true MPEG-2 recording (and hopefully make the quality setting work too). [/QUOTE]
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