On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:36:04 -0500 > > From: Devin Heitmueller <[email protected]> > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm really busy for the next 2 weeks, so I won't be able to look into > > > any possible problem myself until then. Even then I'll have to jump > > > through hoops to get a device that can receive S-Video near my PVR-350. > > > Or just spend $20.00 and buy an Nvidia card with VDPAU and S-video > > output. Given how cheap they are nowadays, it probably isn't worth > > the effort to debug. > > Are there any? > > S-video output on a VDPAU-capable card seems increasingly difficult > to find, especially for newer feature sets. Any recommendations for > (a) PCI (not PCIe), (b) passively cooled or very quiet fan, (c) recent > feature set, (d) S-video? The combo of all of these seemed impossible > the last time I looked. Even dropping (b) didn't help much. And, in > my case, dropping (a) means a new frontend. But to continue using my > Sony CRT, I'd require S-Video, and that wasn't looking promising > post-8400 or so, if 8400's are even still on the market. > > (Also, for someone who only does SD and has limited PCI slots, not > using the 350's decoder means you need an extra slot for that new > card, so abandoning the 350's output may present difficulties for > the OP. We don't know his configuration.)
Yeah, a quick search on newegg has some 6200s in PCI with S-video out, but they don't do VDPAU. I guess if his PC is 5+ years old and cannot handle SD MPEG decoding in software, then his best bet is to not upgrade. Or track it down himself and submit a patch. Or pay Andy a few thousand bucks to track down the issue for him (let's not forget that Andy's time is incredibly valuable and you could argue is much better spent on newer devices). Ultimately this is a matter of priorities: is Andy's time better spent making current hardware work or tracing down regressions in six year old devices that are largely obsolete? It's ultimately his decision what he wants to waste^H^H^H^H^H spend his time on, but I certainly couldn't blame him if this issue isn't it. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
