[mythtv-users] Video Display card recommendation

[Joel Turner]

rawgarlic at gmail.com wrote:

>R wrote:
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>>This 2 year old Dell PowerEdge SC420 will be the Myth box, it has
>>"Intel Celeron processor, 325J, 2.53GHz, 256KB Cache, 533MHz FSB"
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>>It has no AGP slots.
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>>So I need a Video Display card:
>>a.  For a PCI slot
>>b.  Works with MythTV
>>c.  Has integrated TV-out capability
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>>I want my MythTV (menus and content) displayed on an older 30 inch TV.
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>"Brad Fuller" <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>for this particular setup, why not go with a PVR350?
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>Ok, but how do I get all of MythTV on the video out of the PVR-350?
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>In my (limited) understanding, I can see the MythTV menus on my
>desktop CRT monitor.  As soon as I select "Watch TV" then the
>desktop CRT monitor goes blank and the TV monitor displays the TV content.
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>When I hit the "esc" key on the keyboard to stop watching TV then my
>TV monitor goes blank and the desktop CRT monitor comes back with
>the MythTV menus.
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>So I am toggling between the (navigation) desktop CRT monitor and the
>(content) TV monitor.
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>I just want all of it on the TV monitor.
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>I don't mind if the desktop CRT monitor is still connected and out of sight.
>I will turn it on once in a while for maintenance.
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Check the mythtv wiki.  There are instructions for running XV on the 
PVR-350.  I do this for my SD based setup (8 yr old Toshiba) and the 
output is great.  There are disadvantages to this approach which are 
detailed elsewhere in the archives. If you have any intentions of 
replacing your set soon with a plasma or LCD I would not bother with the 
PVR-350 but would look at an nVidia 6200.  It's PCI based, some models 
are fanless and have composite out.