[mythtv] Best TV Out chipset

[Monty Walls]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:05:50 -0500
"Eric C. Cooper" <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:10:11PM -0600, Monty Walls wrote:
> > As far as I know none of the intergrated tv-out encoders that are in
> > motherboard chipsets are truly supported, and none of the
> > intergrated tv-out encoders that people build into video card
> > chipsets are truly supported (examples Geforce4mx, ATI, SIS).
> 
> The TV-out from the Shuttle 50's on-board Sis video works quite well,
> using the driver from
>     http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml

Yes, it's supported but so is my old ATI-RagePro IIc, ie: despite the
vendor, not because.

Also you basically don't get the full range of adjustments possible with
a documented chipset.  On my Geforce2mx with BT869, I can adjust
the overscan/underscan, define new underscan/overcan modes, and adjust
just about every other parameter the BT869 supports.  Even the Chrontel
is capable of most of this (see nvtv).

Now for other reasons I might go with a built-in video chipset
(power, cooling, size), but I wouldn't expect it to offer the
features a dedicate/documented encoder chip supports.

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