[mythtv-users] Which video card is a better choice?

[William Powers]

By far, the hardest part about picking a card for myth use is finding 
one that satisfies your needs _and_ has proper (hardware and software) 
support for XVideo.  I won't bore you with the litany of cards that I 
have tried and failed with; what has worked for me are 1) Any NVIDIA 
card with the proprietary nvidia driver (not the "nv" driver that comes 
standard with XFree86) and a Matrox G200 with the standard "mga" driver.

I don't need TV-out because I bought a scan converter, so I'm happy with 
the Matrox G200 because it works and doesn't need a fan.  If I needed a 
card with TV-out, I would probably get a 440MX, use the proprietary 
NVIDIA driver and cross my fingers about the problematic overscan 
adjustments.

Bill

Robert E. wrote:

> I'm looking at trying the new myth 13 with fedora.   My system is a P4
> 1.6 on an older ECS motherboard that has AGP 1-2x, with PVR 250, 120gb
> hard disk, 256mb of ram.  Which video card would be best for my system?
> I am looking for a low cost playback card that is easy to setup in
> fedora.  I have been thinking about 440mx or a 5200 nVidia card, do you
> have any comments or suggestions.  Hoping to stay under $100 price
> range.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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