Hi all, I've been using a pair of WinTV Nova cards plus my own homebrew software to record MPEG2 video for some time now with truly excellent results. I've been watching on my computer screen using MPlayer and my Matrox G550, but now I'd like to be able to watch the recorded MPEG2 streams on a normal TV.
What hardware should I be using to give the highest possible quality of TV output? I'm aiming to get a reasonably large widescreen TV and drive it with RGB through the SCART socket. Audio will go through an ICE1712-based card to an external 24-bit HiFi DAC. I have a DXR-3 card (em8300-based) here, but I've not used it recently. This card can do RGB output, I believe. When I last used it with MPlayer the A/V sync was really bad, but I understand that they may have fixed that by now. Anyone tried this? What's the quality like? I've seen the quality of TV output from ATI video cards and the onboard video on a VIA Eden board. I was seriously unimpressed. Surely we can do better than this?? I believe that some of the more fancy DVB cards have a TV output on them and can even do the MPEG decoding entirely on-board. If necessary (and affordable) I'd be happy to buy a DVB-c or DVB-s card and use it for output only, providing the quality was good enough. I live in London -- any idea if I can get DVB-c to work with the cable TV services here? What about decrypting the channels? What's the quality of the TV output on these things like? Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks all! Will _________________________________________________________________________ William R Sowerbutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder / Guru / Nrrrd http://sowerbutts.com main(){char*s=">#=0> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^7=",c=0,m;for(;c<15;c++)for (m=-1;m<7;putchar(m++/6&c%3/2?10:s[c]-31&1<<m?42:32));} -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
