[mythtv-users] What should be the minimum video card memory I should look?

[Niels Dybdahl]

On 4/18/06, Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:
> Yalusa Jongihlati wrote:
> > Is 64MB enough for a video card I will be using primarily for its TV out
> > functionality? Can a 64MB card support 1280x1024 or 1024x768?
>
> Total RAM on the card is probably less important than the bus (PCI, AGP,
> PCIe), GPU, TV out encoder, and driver support of features like TV out.
> If by TV out, you mean NTSC or PAL on composite or SVideo, you're
> limited to pretty low resolution anyway. Some cards might have analog
> component video out, which can support high resolutions. For a digital
> display like LCD, DVI (or HDMI, which is very similar) should be the
> best. That's what I'm using for my LCD TV.

Most LCD TVs will scale the input from the HDMI while they will not
scale input from a VGA, so you could get better picture via VGA than
HDMI.

Niels Dybdahl