Bob wrote:
Devan Lippman 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 have a couple of AGP (old fan free ELSA Gladiac 511, underclocked
from 200Mhz to 50) versions of this card and they both work well, (I
belive they have MPEG2 assist through XvMC but I don't have DVD
playback working and my V4L card captures strait to MPEG4 so I have no
way of checking ATM) I think it's the last generation of Nvidia chips
that don't have the TV encoder on GPU meaning they have a separate
Conexant BT869 encoder chip which I belive is the best, other than a
PVR350 or Hollywood+ / Xcard (the last 2 don't work with MythTV
anyway) the only thing is if you ever go HD or put capture cards in
the FE (obviously it's not just a FE at that point) you may start
running out of PCI bandwidth, particularly if IDE and LAN are on the
PCI bus as well.
Doh, I miss read your post, actually my card is a nVidia Geforce2 MX400
which I think ebay will provide for next to no money, look at the photos
and check it's got an svideo out and a passive heat sync.
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tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 34132, rev = J158,
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 MK3 (idx = 58, type = 4)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3416 (type = 14)
(new type Model 401)
model name : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor
cpu MHz : 2277.214
cache size : 512 KB
(Plenty o' grunt on an ECS k7s5a MB)
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