On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:47:56 +0300 Marko M?kel? <marko.makela@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:31:31AM +0300, Niko Mikkila wrote: > > If you want good interlaced TV-out with much less problems and > > tinkering, I'd recommend getting a full-featured DVB card or > > a Dxr3/Hollywood+ card (that'll cost less than EUR 15 on eBay). > > I'd say that -P"softdevice -vo:mgatv" (on a G450) is less hassle than > -Pdxr3. Because my dxr3 broke only after a couple of months of usage and > I've been using softdevice for almost 1.5 years now, I may be biased. > Softdevice has gotten a lot more stable during that time. > > Marko Yeah, Dxr3 installation has its own twists and turns. It's a good thing the driver and the plugin are under active development and they are actually quite stable (for me). FF cards are easy. Matrox Gxxx Scart-RGB is probably the best TV-output available for interlaced software-decoded video. For example one could encode MPEG-2 broadcasts to H.264 for storage and simply decode to the framebuffer when watching instead of re-encoding to MPEG-1/2, which is required with FF cards and Dxr3. Now I'm just waiting for well-integrated interlaced encoding support for x264 :) --Niko
