[mythtv-users] OT: Recommendation on Nvidia Card

Greg Hermsen g.hermy15 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 02:48:39 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> 2009/9/1 Greg Hermsen <g.hermy15 at gmail.com>:
> > If you have other ideas on the 8600, please let me know.
>
> My 8600GT only has 2 DVI-I ports, no svideo/component output
>
> >
> > I thought of one other thing that I don't believe should cause a
> > problem...but I'll throw it out there.  The svideo out on the card goes
> > directly into an svideo-to-composite adapter.  I have a composite cable
> > going from the other side of the adapter to the TV.  Does the 8600 need a
> > direct svideo (card) to svideo (TV) connection?  I used the same
> > svideo-to-compsite converter with the previous FX5200 AGP card.  That
> worked
> > without a problem.
>
> What you describe and if it's what I'm thinking about (the
> composite/component adapter that comes with the card) isn't a svideo
> converter.
>
> Just that the 5200 use a svideo connector to output all the various
> analog connection and you use the provided adapter to get
> composite/svhs or component video.
>
> This is not the type of cable you can plug to any svhs connector and
> expect to get the proper output, it only work with the card using
> those specific connector: typically the same video card
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The 8600 came with an svideo-to-component adapter.  I'm using an
svideo-to-composit that came with the older FX5200 card.

If the adapter is the problem, why would I see output on the screen during
bootup...scrolling text and Mythbuntu load progress bar scrolling?
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