[mythtv-users] Best approach for TV output (composite/s-video)?

[Jeff_Mitchell at accessbusinessgroup.com]

Thanks to all for the advice on this.

Please feel free to keep weighing in, but my thinking at the moment is that
I'll stick with the NVidia card I have my eye on at the moment (Just a
Chaintech with a GeForceMX4000 chipset), and try the TV-Out.  If that
doesn't work sufficiently, I'll probably spend the $70, and try the AiTech
Web Cable Plus.  In the meantime, I'll keep my eye on the ivtv X11
driver/PVR-350 plugins for mplayer and xine situation.

Thanks again.

-Jeff


                                                                           
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> I use a AiTech Web Cable Plus.  It is a VGA --> S-video converter.  I
> got it for around $70 from www.buy.com a year ago or so.  Just plug it
> in and it works. The quality is fine.  It's not perfect; I can tell a
> slight differance between it and the TV's native tunner (I have a new
> 32" Toshiba), but after watching it for a while, you don't notice. I

             I wouldn't be surprised if it's the capture card, and not the
tvout.
I've ruled out my tvout solution as the bandwidth-limiting factor in my
setup
(using test patterns, etc), but the PVR-250 capture still isn't as crisp as
the
TV by itself.

             As an aside, is there any adjustment in the flicker filter
stuff on
this thing?  Can you disable it?  I suspect you're right that the ticker
issue
is from the flickerr reduction doodad.

-Cory
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