[vdr] Re: vdr is a multimedia machine...why...

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Dienstag, 6. August 2002 20:57 schrieben Sie:
> Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> ...
>
> > Yes, i also thought of this ! But i think the better way would be using a
> > VGA card with TV-Out (as Olivier Jacques did) and also using this one as
> > primay DVB device !
>
> I had suggested that before and I was informed that most
> graphics cards with TV out have a much worse picture
> quality than the DVB-S card.
>
> I accept this as the truth, but I guess the emphasis lies
> on "most" in the above sentence. In other words, all we
> need to do is choose a graphics card that is not amon those
> "most" which have poor TV out picture quality.
>
> Of course, the other alternative is to use a beamer or
> monitor that is capable of displaying SVGA. Might be
> cheaper than most TV sets anyway...
>
> Carsten.

An older  matrox should do this perfectly, but they are hard to get. 
anotherone I heard that should be good and in opposite to the matrox cheap 
too, are ati-rage128(think of gatos-driver if I'm right) , but can't give a 
state on it , while didn't have one ever. I personally own a nvidia GF2MX and 
in comparison to the tv-out of the dvb-s they looks really poor. Such one I 
wont use for main display of vdr. Another Pro to use a VGA as main-display 
would be playin divx, because the realtime-encoding to mpeg isn't needed 
then. So you can have a 500Mhz CPU in your vdr and watch divx. For that 
mpeg-decoding this cpu is more than enough. Maybe the dvb-s/vdr  have a 
video-interface which can be displayed directly on the VGA. Im quite new to 
the whole vdr-stuff, and test a lot on what is possible and what not. 
Hope I could help a littlebit. 

Greets

Steffen
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