I'm using a GeForce 5200 8x AGP with 256MB RAM. It is a Pine Technologies generic that I got at Sam's Club for $58.00 and the TV out quality is outstanding. No fan on it, either.
David On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:16 +0000, 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. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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