On Wednesday 24 August 2005 21:49, Dave wrote: > > The problem is that the quality of TV encoders used on Nvidia designs > > (and clones) various greatly. Some encoders are external to the Nvidia > > GPU (Phillips and others) some are integrated into the Nvidia GPU. For > > me, the output of the signal is washed out. No adjustment of XV > > controls completely corrects the image. > > > > Some cards are better. From casual reading, it appears board with > > external encoders are better than Nvidia's newer internal designs. > > > > Interesting. Is there any way to determine which cards have the > external decoder vs the internal one?
If you mean, is there a way to determine *before you buy the card*, then no, I don't think so. Once you have the card installed an 'lspci -v' should show you what the TV encoder is. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
