Hello - I have a bit of a subjective question here and I'm looking for some opinions. I recently put together a Myth box and I'm using the S-Video out for SDTV. I purchased a Chaintech Geforce FX 5200 (Fanless, and NOT low profile) :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145095 Here's where I don't know how high to put my expectations. When running the console, or running a simple X session, or playing a movie through Mplayer I can't say I'm too terribly pleased with the quality of the TV-Out from the vid card. It doesn't compare at all to the CLARITY I can get from either my existing DVD player or even standard cable straight from the wall. The TV-Out from the Chaintech seems to have what I can only call interference in the picture. Basically I can see what I'll call interference lines being drawn in a pattern over the picture. Generally speaking these lines are subtle but obnoxious. These lines seem to flicker back and forth a bit. I'm not talking interlace flicker though I just describing how to these lines move. Before you ask here's the s-video cable I'm using : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6825885&type=product&id=1091101680940 After all that, can I expect picture clarity on par with a DVD player coming from an Nvidia card? Do I just have a bum card? (fyi, I'm using one of the many NTSC'like modelines for X that can be found in the list archives here) -Chad Johnson _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
