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

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 7. August 2002 11:16 schrieben Sie:
> 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.

Well I think the G4xx have Macrovision on their TV-Out. And with the real 
RGB you can still achieve a lot better quality.

> 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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> > > you
>
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>
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