As I said earlier I had a dxr3 laying around so I tried with that. The TV-out is *much* better than with softdevice and nvidia. As you all said, maybe G450 is a better solution but I don't have one of those so the dxr3 will do. I occationally have some glitches in the A/ V but i think it's due to bad reception. I'll look in to it more. Thank you all! // Johan 1 jun 2006 kl. 10.24 skrev Laz: > On Thursday 01 Jun 2006 00:59, Malcolm Caldwell wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 09:47 +0300, Marko M?kel? 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. >> >> I also switched from dxr3 to softdevice with a matrox G450 about 10 >> months ago. > > My old system used to be a 1 GHz Athlon with a dxr3 in it and it > was rock > solid most of the time. The system did sometimes fail to boot but I > eventually tracked that down to a dodgy PSU. I changed this for my > current Via Epia system because the Athlon made lots of noise! > >> For me the G450 has been a lot more stable. With the dxr3 I had >> crashes, OSD failures etc etc. I was upgrading my vdr dxr3plugin >> version every week or so hoping things would improve. >> >> Reading the lists it would seem that the dxr3 solution has improved: >> perhaps I jumped ship just a bit early... Even if this is so I am >> still glad I converted. >> >> Regardless, IMHO softplay makes softdevice a superior solution. > > Softdevice also gives a much better OSD than the dxr3. > > I replaced the dxr3 with a G450 and moved that system upstairs to > use with > streamdev and an nfs-mounted /video directory. After a little bit of > fiddling with kernel patches and making an RGB component cable, the > picture was perfect. > > However, since I upgraded softdevice a few weeks back, interlaced > streams > tend to judder a bit on the G450, and the video gets jerky when the > OSD > is displayed. :( > > Bizarrely, if I move the 'cursor' down a menu by holding down a > key, I get > a weird ghosting trail of the cursor, i.e. it fades out behind it > as it > moves. I presume it isn't meant to do this (doesn't on my Epia system) > but it looks quite cool! > > I'm sure softdevice was perfect with interlaced streams before the > upgrade > (it has been kept quite up to date with softdevice CVS so it must be > something recent). I haven't looked into this yet but suspect > something > has changed with the mgatv option (triple buffering enabled or > disabled > or something?). > > As you say, softplay is a great, simple solution without needing > mplayer > running too! Shame I don't get sound from RealMedia files! > > Cheers, > > Laz > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
