[mythtv-users] TV out card for frontend

[David Wallace]

I'm using a GeForce 5200 8x AGP with 256MB RAM. It is a Pine
Technologies generic that I got at Sam's Club for $58.00 and the TV out
quality is outstanding. No fan on it, either.

David



On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:16 +0000, David Watkins wrote:
> On 09/11/05, Devan Lippman <devan.lippman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Shopping for a new tv-out for my frontend and came across this at a very
> > reasonable price: JATON Geforce4 MX440 Video-198PCI-64TV Video Card
> > I was thinking about it though and this probably will not do any hardware
> > decoding for video?  It does however have a PCI interface with svideo and
> > composite outputs.  From what I hear the overscan adjustments work well on
> > the geforce 4.  Can anyone think of a reason not to get this and suggest a
> > better alternative, kepping in mind that it must be PCI?
> 
> I'm using a PCI Geforce4 MX440 on my combined FE/BE.  It works fine
> and doesn't have a fan, which is another nice thing.  The nvidia
> driver does support hardware decoding (by enabling XvMC) with it,
> which significantly reduces the CPU load.  However I don't use the
> hardware decoding because:
> 
> 1)  It's extremely jittery when overlaying the on screen display.
> 2)  My AMD XP1400 (1GHz) CPU is easily capable of decoding standard
> definition video in software while simultaneously recording from both
> of my DVB cards.
> 
> If you have a low powered CPU, tuner cards with software encoding, or
> you're looking at high definition output then you may the XvMC
> enabled.
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