[mythtv-users] Frames per second?

Ray Olszewski ray at comarre.com
Wed Apr 23 16:45:05 UTC 2003


At 07:39 AM 4/23/2003 -0700, Dennis Lou wrote:
>Ray Olszewski <ray at comarre.com> wrote:
> >Savage card with TV out are
> >completely unsupported under Linux and XFree86.
>
>Waitasec.  What about this?
>
>http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
>
>As a matter of fact, I have a friend who set up
>his Myth box with the Savage/IX and TVout to his
>antique 53" NTSC big screen.  As a matter of fact,
>he's
>on this mailing list.  Jee, care to share your
>experiences?


My own (unsuccessful) experience is with the Savage 2000. Its TV-out port 
works fine for consoles but fails completely for X. As the Savage 2000 has 
other problems (it doesn't support xv; that info is at the URL you refer me 
to) I didn't pursue it hard.

I do see that the X driver has an "ption "TvOnly"" setting, which implies 
that for at least *some* cards, it supports TV out. But I don't see 
anything specific about which cards do and do not work, and I'm told that 
many laptops use Savage chipsets (none of the problems we commonly discuss 
about TV out apply to laptops).

Much better than relying on the vague information at the probo site would 
be your friend reporting his actual, positive experience, indicating what 
card he or she used and what steps were needed to make it work.

Down the road a bit (but not too far down), I'd like to compile a directory 
of what AGP cards do and do not work with TV out for Linux and XFree86.This 
will mostly have to be a compilation of others' reports, since I don't have 
the resources to buy a bunch of cards for testing (I have a Matrox card 
that works, an ATI that doesn't work yet ... but I haven't instatted 
ati2-experimental ... and the Savage 2000 card I referred to above). A 
report from your friend would be nice for this.

So would some reports from people who actually have nVidea cards running, 
discussing the steps needed to make nvtv or the drivers from nVIdea work. 
And if anyone is actually using an ATI card with the GATOS-ati-2 
experimental drivers, a step-by-step for that would be nice ... something 
as one-two-buckle-my-shoe in style as the site for using the Matrox cards, 
perhaps.

If people posted such reports here, I'd could fairly easily compile them 
into a mini-HowTo, and I can probably even find a place to host it if the 
MythTV site is not suitable.




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