[mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 18 November 2005 21:03, Mike Robinson wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote:
> >>>Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that.
> >>>The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at
> >>>boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports
> >>>that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card.  As far as
> >>>PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy
> >>>the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI
> >>>version.  The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E
> >>
> >>I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe
> >>slot.  What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get.
> >>FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface.  The next
> >>generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in
> >>Linux.  My head is ready to explode with from all of the different
> >>reviews I've read on various cards.  I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but
> >>I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card.
> >>  Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs
> >>without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd
> >>love to know the setup.
> >
> > I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to
> > my HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA
> > based cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but
> > when they do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you
> > shouldn't have an issue.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Where did you find it?  Do you have a link?  This is the only FX5200
> PCIe link I could find:
>
>    http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_1498478/111601.html
>
> I'd consider the newer 6xxx Nvidia PCIe cards, but then I read folks
> complaining about Nvidia dropping Xvideo overlay support:
>
>    http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html
>
> Should I be concerned about this?  This is all new stuff to me.  Does
> this have anything to do with XvMC?

I got it at Newegg, they don't look to carry it anymore. I don't know anything 
about the overlay or XvMC stuff.

Steve