[mythtv-users] Recommendation: Hardware MPEG2 Decoder w/ DVI?

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 19:54:32 UTC 2004


Also note that some of the nvidia cards had external DVI chips, which,
while not as good as ATI's, were still able to do the full 162mhz.

-Nate


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:28:52 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:41:30PM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote:
> > The nVidia 5200 card is a fine one for software
> > decoding, and I recommend it.  There was a recent
> > article in Tom's Hardware, tho, which trashed it for
> > DVI compatibility.  I use VGA myself so I couldn't
> > comment.  The "winner" for DVI compatibility was ATI,
> > but no one has much good to say about Radeon cards for
> > Myth.
> 
> Strictly, the Tom's article approved one Nvidia card and deprecated two
> others, but they were all much higher end cards ($300 range, you can get
> the 5200 for $50) so we don't know what they saw on a 5200, they said
> they would do that at some point.
> 
> I will note I have been unable to get the 5200 to work under linux to drive
> my HDTV via DVI, but others have been able to do that.
> 
> Note that the "trashed" cards were able to do 140mhz, not the full 162mhz
> needed to do 1600x1200x60hz.   HDTV needs only 1920x1080x30hz or
> 1280x720x60hz, where are both about half of the full bandwidth.
> 
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