On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:53:36PM -0700, Jim wrote: > I am looking at purchasing the eVGA nVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Video Card, > 256MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "256-A8-N313-LX card and > the chipset is GeForce FX5500/270MHz would this be a good card for to > use for the tv out function for mythtv? > > Can basically any nvidia card with tv out work well for mythtv under > Debian or do some cards work better than others or is there better > driver support for certain cards? >
For tv-out of SDTV, you can use a much cheaper card than that. But more to the point, I believe most versions of that card have a fan on them, which you probably don't want in an HTPC. Fans make noise, and GPU fans are small and thus noisier. In theory the FX cards have some fancier xvmc logic but I don't think that's yet exploited. It might also be in the GF4 cards though. Drivers tend to work better with the FX cards, as they test them more with the more recent cards.
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