On Friday 13 January 2006 12:28, Scott Alfter wrote: > Carl Fongheiser wrote: > > On 1/12/06, *Chris Glover* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I currently have an NVIDIA 6200 PCI-E based card in my Myth box. It > > seems this card will not support the Chromakey OSD. Running xvattr > > does not list the XV_COLORKEY variable. > > > > Anybody here successfully using an NVIDIA PCI-E based card with Myth, > > and if so which one? > > > > None of the NVidia 6xxx or 7xxx cards support that feature. I'm pretty > > sure that includes all of the PCI-E cards. Nevertheless, I haven't had > > any problems running MythTV on my one system that has a 6600GT card in > > it. You just can't use chroma keying for the OSD. > > nVidia used to produce the GeforcePCX 5300, which was basically (IIRC) a > GeforceFX 5200 with a PCI Express-to-AGP bridge chip. I found one on eBay > yesterday and snagged it for about $40; when it arrives, it's going into my > Mythbox and the 6200 I bought for it last weekend is going back to Fry's. > > (My main complaint with the 6200 is that colors are way too saturated, and > there's no way to crank them back to more natural levels within MythTV.)
I have that card, VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV37GL [Quadro FX 330/GeForce PCX 5300] in my other machine that has PCIX. Haven't used it for output to my HDTV yet, but on my 21" monitor it looks lovely =) -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users