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

[<peacemkr@gmx.de>]

The Matrox G4xx and above have the best TV-Out on the Market. Also there are
some HighEnd-GFX that have 2 Ramdacs and they should also give a good
picture but the ATI Rage 128 dont have a good TV-Out.
I own a G400 Dualhead and a All in Wonder Pro (Rage128) and the G400-TV-Out
is ways better then the Rage.
I also have a GF1 DDR flyin around here and that TV-Out sucks more then the
Rage128.

MfG Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Caldwell" <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:23 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: vdr is a multimedia machine...why...


> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 04:50, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't think any vga out card is going to give as good a tv out as a
> DVB-S card.
>
> Another option I saw mentioned on another list somewhere:  apparently
> there are RS232 controlled video switches, that will switch between two
> TV sources.  So if you feed one input from the DVB card, one from the
> VGA card, you could then switch between them from within VDR.
>
>
> >
> > Greets
> >
> > Steffen
>
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