[mythtv-users] How to output to Standard TV

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gavin Whitehead
<gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian Oliver wrote:
>>
>> In article <4B7D9FC3.1090307 at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk>, Gavin
>> Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My concern is how to connect the HTPC to my Standard TV (Panasonic
>>> TX-28PL10).
>>>
>>
>> Welcome to a world of pain!
>>
>> Connecting composite is easy but quality is bad, s-video is better quality
>> but harder work, RGB is the best quality but there are no off-
>> the-shelf solutions. Additional complexities are overscan and tearing due
>> to bad sync.
>>
>> As it happens, HDMI isn't plain sailing either. My TV wouldn't do 1:1
>> pixels via HDMI.
>>
>> VGA is easiest of the lot, but my ION chipset wouldn't pass through EDID
>> to X (though the nvidia utility can manage it!) so I had to hard-
>> wire the 1360x768 resolution.
>>
>> The world desperately needs a plug-and-play way to connect media devices
>> to TVs.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
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>
> I've found this card
>     XFX GeForce® 9400 GT 1024MB DDR2 Standard <#>
>   Model Number: PV-T94G-ZAH2
>   http://www.xfxforce.com/en-gb/products/graphiccards/9series/9400GT.aspx
>
> I think this will allow me to connect my Standard TV, and it's not too
> expensive (sub £50).
>
> Anyon had any experience with this card and MythTV/Xubuntu?

Its an nvidia, it should work fine with myth.

It appears to have a s-video connector, but there are two pics of the
back plane with different setups and "Product appearance may vary" -

The specs aren't too clear on the connectors either.

Sometimes nvidia cards have a modified s-video socket. It has more
than the usual number of pins. The normal s-video pins provide an
s-video signal and you use the usual s-video cable. The extra pins
provide component via a break out cable (the other end is the familiar
three rca plugs for component). Whether this card has this feature,
and whether it will work in linux, is unknown to me.