On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:45 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I'm buying a video card for tv-out and Freevo. I do not really use the > gaming functions, so primarily it should be cheap. It'll probably be
I just bought a Matrox G550 on ebay for $35 CAD. It's AGP, but Matrox G* PCI cards are available too. If you want to buy a card specifically for TV-out, I would avoid Nvidia if you plan on dealing with interlaced material like video captured from television. There is no way to turn off underscanning, at least with their linux driver (I have not tested under windows), so interlaced video gets seriously butchered by the time it makes it to your television. The Matrox G400/450/550 cards can be found relatively cheaply, they have good support on Linux, and, near as I can tell, no other video card even touches these cards on Linux for tv-out quality. Cheers, Jason.
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