[mythtv-users] Will I regret ditching my GF4MX?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 15 January 2004 23:20, David jeske wrote:
> -- Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > So, my main question is this: if I go with the Pundit or some
> > uATX board with on-board (non-Nvidia) TV-out, will I miss
> > my GF4MX?
>
> I'm still trying to figure out exactly what ideal machine to
> assemble, and from my research in the archives it seems like the SiS
> 315 is one of the few tvout choices which has control of overscan
> which generally works.  NOTE: I don't _have_ one of these, I'm just
> reporting what I found.
>
> I'm currently running with a GF4MX, but I can't get overscan. I hear
> it used to work in earlier drivers, but even then that the max 1.0
> setting often wasn't enough.
>
> Anyhow, my current chart looks like:
>
> SiS 315: no company support, open source drivers, overscan support
> NVidia (GF4MX,others): robust vendor supplied drivers, medicore
> overscan support if any
> PVR-350 : bleeding edge, high cpu usage when outputting anything but
> mpeg2, proper overscan
> ATI Rage/Radeon: atitvout is not in development and only works on a
> handfull of chips
> S3 savage: reports of video windows not appearing on tvout
> This may be wrong, so YMMV.
>
> - David

Thanks for the summary.  Incidentally, you need *exactly* the -4363 
version of the Nvidia drivers to get overscan on the GF4MX.  AFAIK, 
it's only tweakable in XF86Config (i.e., no program like nvtv to play 
around with -- at least, not in the 4363 drivers).  I've been generally 
quite satisfied with my overscan capabilities.

-JAC