Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi. > > I'm looking for a really generic, well supported TV-out card. > > Must have composite out, be really cheap, and give reasonable quality > to your average family TV. > > > any suggestions?? I use a Matrox G400 32MB Dual Head. I have a home-made VGA to SCART component cable for better picture quality, but it does fine with the provided Composite/S-Video dongle. You should be able to pick one up for next to nothing second-hand, just make sure you get the video-out dongle. In Linux, at least, the 2D and video overlay performance is great. Plays 720i DVB using MythTV or equivalent MPEG4 using MPlayer smoothly on a P3-800 machine. I do, however, get some combing in the 720i DVB picture, even with BOB deinterlacer. Price-performance wise I'd say this one is a winner, but for a few more ? you might get something with more features. Note that the G450 and G500 are quite different beasts, and not so well supported by Linux AFAIK. For instructions on getting TV-Out working on a G400, read here: http://davedina.apestaart.org/download/doc/Matrox-TVOUT-HOWTO-0.1.txt Otherwise, ask me and I'll mail you my configurations. Rodd
