[mythtv-users] TV out card for frontend

[Bob]

Bob wrote:

> Devan Lippman 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 have a couple of AGP (old fan free ELSA Gladiac 511, underclocked 
> from 200Mhz to 50) versions of this card and they both work well, (I 
> belive they have MPEG2 assist through XvMC but I don't have DVD 
> playback working and my V4L card captures strait to MPEG4 so I have no 
> way of checking ATM) I think it's the last generation of Nvidia chips 
> that don't have the TV encoder on GPU meaning they have a separate 
> Conexant BT869 encoder chip which I belive is the best, other than a 
> PVR350 or Hollywood+ / Xcard (the last 2 don't work with MythTV 
> anyway) the only thing is if you ever go HD or put capture cards in 
> the FE (obviously it's not just a FE at that point) you may start 
> running out of PCI bandwidth, particularly if IDE and LAN are on the 
> PCI bus as well.


Doh, I miss read your post, actually my card is a nVidia Geforce2 MX400 
which I think ebay will provide for next to no money, look at the photos 
and check it's got an svideo out and a passive heat sync.

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