[mythtv-users] MX440/Radeon wars (Was: Hardware ideas)

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Jun 28 15:57:01 EDT 2004


On Friday 25 June 2004 14:30, David Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Yeah, this one is highly dependent on the TV-out chip. I remember someone
> > saying that this functionality was built into all GF4 and later chips,
> > and it didn't sit right. Now I'm quite positive that was incorrect,
> > because I remember reading the nvtv docs, which say that nvtv does work
> > with some GF4 cards with specific TV-out encoder chips.
>
> This is all starting to make more sense.
>
> Jarod, do you mind revealing what specific make and model nvidia cards
> you've been using? Any others with nvidia experiences (good or bad) want
> to do the same? If nothing else, I (and others) can avoid bad nvidia
> cards, but more generally I can try to find out what cards have what TV
> encoder chips and draw conclusions about those encoders...

All the cards I've used regularly in my production machines are either 
Chaintech AGP, or the onboard video on a Chaintech motherboard. Not sure 
exactly what the TV encoder chip is, but I can take a look later, if you 
like.

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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