Tony Houghton wrote: > In <E1696631-2B3F-4259-9DE3-620A1B093CC3@xxxxxxxxx>, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > >> You might still use a VGA card and get very good TV signal output. >> The matrox cards can do interlaced output with perfect field >> alignment. There might be some lip sync issues though, but the >> softdevice plugin gets better every day. > > My experience with softdevice is that even recently its A/V sync is quite > poor. Xine is very good at syncing, but there's more lag when changing > channels etc due to buffering. I'm now using df_xine with a Matrox G450. > >> Matrox cards can do composite and s-vga (and scart rgb with an >> adapter) output. > > You need an adaptor for S-Video and composite too, but you can buy one > ready made from Matrox. It's not outrageously expensive, worth the money > IMO to avoid some very fiddly soldering. Unfortunately they don't seem > to sell one for RGB Thanks both, for the suggestion. I'd prefer to use the PVR 350 due to the low host CPU requirement and it seems like a natural replacement for the FF cards - IR, MPEG decoder and OSD all in hardware and at a reasonable price. Regards, Richard
