[mythtv-users] How to output to Standard TV

Gavin Whitehead gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 19 13:53:25 UTC 2010


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Friday 19 February 2010 02:38:45 am Gavin Whitehead wrote:
>
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>> 1) [re Brian Woods post] What's all this about "Myth systems like them
>> much better than the ATI cards" ?  Can anyone enlighten me?  Or direct
>> me to more information?
>>     
>
> It has to do with the Linux drivers available for the cards. nVidia has better 
> drivers available for Linux than ATI does. nVidia also has cards that support 
> VDPAU.
>
> It's not that people haven't been able to get results with ATI hardware, but 
> the consensus seems to be that nVidia video hardware will produce better 
> results, especially for HD, with much less hassle. I know you said you're not 
> looking for HD immediately, but you might as well buy a card that will do it 
> in the future.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ATI_Proprietary_Driver
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaProprietaryDriver
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidia_Cards
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TV_Out
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
>
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> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/RGB_Scart
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Thanks Brian.  Plenty for me to read there.


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