[vdr] Re: Increasing SDRAM on DVB cards

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mit, 2003-06-18 um 13.10 schrieb Onno:
> Hi,

> > 
> > There are not so many video cards with a RGB output, unless you have a
> > DVI output and a special cable.
> 
> which make up for an amount (expensive GFX,DVI cable) which allready
> allows you to buy a cheap PC + DXR3 .....

What about directly connecting the VGA-out of GFX to RGB-in of TV?

Quite cheap, quite good quality!

And you don't have the annoying problems the df-gp project made stumble
(like patches for the kernels, ...).

> 
> > All usual ways is to send the s-video signal to the scart connector.
> > 
> > Another thing : the video card has usual also a fan and there are a
> 
> thats an own goal, i have no fan on my gfx (you will allways get
> GFX models mithout fans, companys need them too), whilst a _lot_
> of dvb users try to protect their 250€ invest and mount (very loud and 
> unspecialised) fans to cool the DVB, i have 2 one fron an powersupply
> and another from a scsi-server drivebay for my dvb cards.
> 
> > bunch of users who want a silent
> > solution so if possible no fan at all.
> 
> thats leads to an old pc with an dxr3 card, or wait for
> vdr on dbox2 ...
> 

I like generic solutions as they don't discontinue and we're not 
dependant to one hardware provider/type.

Rene



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