[mythtv-users] [OT] - Known good S-video out cards?

[Richard Morton]

I temporarily implemented SVideo on a Asus NVidia 8500GT card... im
still using svideo and it works great.

R


Thanks And Regards,

Richard Morton

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2009/11/3 Tony Lill <ajlill at ajlc.waterloo.on.ca>:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I'm wondering if anyone can recommend any cards that KNOWN good
>> S-video out and don't cost and arm & a leg? The Open Source ATI driver
>> does a VERY bad job with the ATI chipset in this machine (9100 IGP)
>> and the developers are non-responsive about whether they will fix it
>> or not. The older closed source ATI driver worked very well but ATI
>> dropped support for this device and I'd like to keep the machines up
>> to date if possible.
>>
>>    I don't personally care much about ATI or nvidia, but I would like
>> a GPU that's supported using Open Source drivers.
>>
>>    The machines are dedicated Myth front ends and I don't require
>> anything like HDTV at this time as it is all going over S-video. Best
>> if I can get fanless and low profile as the Pundit-R isn't a large
>> box.
>>
> I'm currently running the Nvidia  GeForce 8400 GS. Fanless and does
> S-video and component out, as well as dvi and vga. The card's short
> but the back panel is full height to hold all the connectors.
>
> I'm currently using S-video. Component works too, but the card
> wouldn't detect it when it was plugged in with my receiver, only when
> plugged directly into the TV, and I didn't feel like playing around
> with the config to force it.
>
> The 190.42 drivers came out of beta, so I can now do overscan
> correction, yay!
>
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