On Thursday 10 November 2005 04:16, David Watkins wrote: > On 09/11/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shopping for a new tv-out for my frontend and came across this at a very > > reasonable price: JATON Geforce4 MX440 Video-198PCI-64TV Video Card > > I was thinking about it though and this probably will not do any hardware > > decoding for video? It does however have a PCI interface with svideo and > > composite outputs. From what I hear the overscan adjustments work well > > on the geforce 4. Can anyone think of a reason not to get this and > > suggest a better alternative, kepping in mind that it must be PCI? > > I'm using a PCI Geforce4 MX440 on my combined FE/BE. It works fine > and doesn't have a fan, which is another nice thing. The nvidia > driver does support hardware decoding (by enabling XvMC) with it, > which significantly reduces the CPU load. However I don't use the > hardware decoding because: > > 1) It's extremely jittery when overlaying the on screen display. > 2) My AMD XP1400 (1GHz) CPU is easily capable of decoding standard > definition video in software while simultaneously recording from both > of my DVB cards. > > If you have a low powered CPU, tuner cards with software encoding, or > you're looking at high definition output then you may the XvMC > enabled.
For SD I used to use a Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus card which at the time had the best TV output of any computer card and DVD player I could get my hands on. I don't know how it stacks up to the PVR-350's output or if it can do overlays and all, but it could be a great option for low power CPU's as it off loads all mpeg1/2 processing. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
