[mythtv-users] Baby Steps 2

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Mon Feb 12 20:01:20 UTC 2007


mythtvster wrote:
>
> Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I 
> need a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I 
> would like to hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if 
> at all possible - do they even make a vanilla PCI card (with Linux 
> drivers available) that will handle this?

I just bought a handful of HP OEM nVidia Quadra PCI cards from 
TigerDirect for $35.  They seem to work just fine.  I haven't tried them 
with HD, but for SD they do a good job.  DVI and s-video out only; they 
come with a DVI -> VGA adapter.

--Yan



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