On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:30:38 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:40:47PM -0700, mark wrote: > > I have had good luck with the 5200 > > Great quality and fairly cheap. > > > The 5200 is the low end of the FX line, and reasonably powerful, > but if you just want xvideo out of the card, and little else, > why even go there. Plain tv-out cards in the geforce 4 line can > be had for $30, and even less in other chipsets. > > For HDTV, betware that some drivers can't do xvideo at 1900 wide, > such as the open source nvidia drivers. but for tv-out they are > probably all fine. if xvmc becomes workable, the mx400 line also has > that pretty much the same as the 5200. >
Well, if you want to use the closed source drivers, it might be worth it to go a little higher than the geforce 4 card. A lot of people are reporting stability issues with older cards with the newer drivers. This includes myself. I have an MX 440 card, and although it works fine for normal operation, if I ever have to restart the X server there is about a 1 in 3 change of the system completely locking up. This used to be a huge problem, because every once in a while mythfrontend will crash, and the way I used to have it setup, that meant that the mythtv user would get logged out, and the X server would restart before logging back in and restarting mythfrontend. Because of the Nvidia problems, I changed it so that instead of just starting mythfrontend, the startup script calls mythfrontend in a continuous loop, so that if mythfrontend dies, it just gets restarted without the X server needing to be cycled. With that change in, my Mythtv system hasn't needed a reboot for almost 2 months now. The other problem for me is that if I shut down X to go to a text only console (Assuming the machine doesn't freeze up), then the text mode is all garbled. Since I almost never do this on my Myth box though, that glitch isn't really a big deal. Shawn
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