I personally use a nvidia gf4 mx 440, with directfb, and as far as Im concerened, its perfect (I own a nexus), But I dont drive a regular TV, I pipe the RGBHV 800x600 VGA right into a NEC LCD projector, beaming a 112 inch image, and the image is absolutely stunning in quality. and sure is a lot cheaper than a good quality line doubler. Vladimir Shved wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >>Of Niko Mikkila >>Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:14 AM >>To: VDR Mailing List >>Subject: Re: which tv-out card? >> >>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:48:04 +0100 >>Leo M?rquez <leo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I want help a friend to set a budget cards based (dvb-t and dvb-s) vdr >>>box in a standard computer (not micro-atx) >>>I don't have the hardware info (only cpu athlon 1800) but the connector >>>to be used is s-video to scart-tv. We have planned to set softdevice and >>>use the tv-out of a vga card to connect it to the tv. >>>Do you recommend any vga card or any kind work with softdevice?. >>>I need directfb or only softdevice? >>> >>>I have no experience with softdevice. I actually have an epia system but >>>with a ff nexus card. >>> >>>Thanks. >>> >>> >>Hi, >> >>I would not recommend using the tv-out of a graphics card. It will >>break interlacing, so you'll get a lot worse motion quality than >>with a FF-card or Dxr3/Hollywood+. It won't matter if you only >>watch movies, but for sports, news and other live video it will be bad. >> >>If you still wish to go for softdevice or vdr-xine (I'd recommend >>the latter for its deinterlacing modes), setting things up will >>be easiest eith a cheap nVidia card and X.org instead of DirectFB. >>Anything newer than GeForce 4 MX440 is easy to setup for TwinView, >>so don't waste money on a new board if you have one of these lying >>around. You may not even need a window manager for X, or only a very >>light one (twm, fvwm) so the startup time is almost the same with that >>combination as with DirectFB. >> >>Dualhead Matrox cards (G400-G550) would be better for tv-output, >>but they are harder to setup. With them it is better to use DirectFB >>and it would even be possible to preserve interlacing, but I'm >>not sure if softdevice supports that. >> >> >> > > >I've tried G400 and G450, both cards work great with directfb, the output >almost identical to FF card except minor issues with some skins and no VDRs >OSD when using mplayer. G400 tiny bit harder to setup than G450. Also first >head becomes unusable, screen is blank and all you can do is use keyboard to >control VDR. I did not try X on these. Right now running G400DH/16Mb and it >seems to work great, runs for days without problems. I actually like this >setup better than FF card, less audio sync problems, cheaper and no firmware >ARM crashes. > >And I've tried ATI 7000 series, 9800 pro and GF2 mx440, OSD is real bad on >those, also seems to work only with X. When using directfb, I could not get >OSD to come up at all. CPU usage was lower, about 10% average comparing to >30% with Matrox, thats on athlon-xp 2200+. I think FX5200 might be good >choice, anyone tried it? > >Also tried Dxr3/Hollywood+, TV-out is nice, OSD is much improved but still >very unstable. Driver is crashing, needs to be reloaded, sometimes I had to >restart whole system to get it back to normal. > >--Vlad > >_______________________________________________ >vdr mailing list >vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > >
