On Friday 18 November 2005 21:03, Mike Robinson wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote: > >>>Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that. > >>>The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at > >>>boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports > >>>that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card. As far as > >>>PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy > >>>the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI > >>>version. The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E > >> > >>I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe > >>slot. What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get. > >>FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface. The next > >>generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in > >>Linux. My head is ready to explode with from all of the different > >>reviews I've read on various cards. I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but > >>I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card. > >> Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs > >>without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc. If so, I'd > >>love to know the setup. > > > > I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to > > my HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA > > based cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but > > when they do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you > > shouldn't have an issue. > > > > Steve > > Where did you find it? Do you have a link? This is the only FX5200 > PCIe link I could find: > > http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_1498478/111601.html > > I'd consider the newer 6xxx Nvidia PCIe cards, but then I read folks > complaining about Nvidia dropping Xvideo overlay support: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html > > Should I be concerned about this? This is all new stuff to me. Does > this have anything to do with XvMC?
I got it at Newegg, they don't look to carry it anymore. I don't know anything about the overlay or XvMC stuff. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
