I got a fanless 5200 8x AGP w/256 MEG RAM (Pine MFG) at Sam's Club for
$58.00 USD. The TV out to a 36 Sony Vega is wonderful.
David
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:12 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jesse wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Dave wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jesse wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Dave wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Well just to add my 2p, I've had a PVR-350 running for about a year with
TV/X out,
I've just swapped to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MX440 (5200 or similar should be better)
Advantages:
...
Disadvantages:
Picture quality - supposedly worse[0]
...
FWIW IMHO unless you want a silent low powered machine or don't have an AGP
slot I'd say save the pennies
(or cents) and just get a cheap nvidia card.
Where the PVR-350 shines for me that it recognizes
whether the content is interlaces or not, and handles
it appropriately (so say the log messages on the
console). This is really nice because then I don't
have to use Bob to deinterlace, which makes the OSD
flicker.. (The other deinterlacing
I too noticed the problem with Bob and flickering OSD. I was plesently
surprised when after switching to the MediaCenter theme for the OSD that
flickering went away. :). Its a lot nicer tooking than the blue box in
the corner IMO.
On Oct 31, 2005 07:49 PM, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
Dave wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got
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
Michael T. Dean wrote:
3.) Took the time to *learn* how to properly configure their NVIDIA
cards for TV out
I think think there are quite a few us who would love any tips on how
to properly configure our NVIDIA cards.
Some mentioned differences between manufacturers - for the record, I
have
3.) Took the time to *learn* how to properly configure their NVIDIA
cards for TV out
I think think there are quite a few us who would love any tips on how
to properly configure our NVIDIA cards.
Some mentioned differences between manufacturers - for the record, I
have an AOpen
The early revision XBox units have a Conexant chip (I
think a 2587x) chip, which is an excellent chip for
TV-out solutions. I had the chance to work briefly
with one in one of the products that the company I
work for makes.
The quality is so good, that I considered inquiring
about forking out
Michael T. Dean wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
My FX5200 is terrible compared to my PVR 350. No contest. Maybe these
people either:
1.) Have terrible
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
I don't have any concrete facts to dispute it, but i'm not sure if
that assumption is an absolute.
What I know annecdotally is that budget and cheaper manufacturer
cards tend to cheat or skimp on the TV out section/components as a
way to cut corners/costs.
Example: back in the day... it seemed
Mark Gardner wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
the HD died).
Mostly interested in quality of
On Monday 22 August 2005 10:24 pm, Mark Gardner wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
the HD
Mark Gardner wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
the HD died).
Mostly interested in quality
About a month after that, John Harvey released his XV driver for the
350's decoder, so I decided to give it a try. Well, now I'm right back
where I started - using the 350's TV-out. TV playback is still far
superior to the MX440 and FX5200. It's flawless. Perhaps even better
quality than
Forgive the slight threadjack, but...
Does the PVR350 suffer the same EOF lockups in mythtv/linux that
happen in the windows world?
To the original poster:
In my opinion; the pvr350 and it's hardware decoder/svideo output
looks better than most software decoding / video card's svideo out (
out
I think one of the main PVR350 stability issues is the chipset.
It doesn't get on with VIA chipsets IIRC.
Cerainly I've had zero issues since I bought a Dell SC420 (with Intel
chipset) and used that as my backend.
David
Erik Pettersen wrote:
Forgive the slight threadjack, but...
Does the
Well, that might be so... and that's not promising to me considering I
wanted to keep the pvr350 in the via epia m10k mini-itx box.
Again on the windows side of things (forgive me, I have sinned), the
community tried to isolate the issue. At first it was intel chipsets
that it didn't work on,
David Watkins wrote:
About a month after that, John Harvey released his XV driver for the
350's decoder, so I decided to give it a try. Well, now I'm right back
where I started - using the 350's TV-out. TV playback is still far
superior to the MX440 and FX5200. It's flawless. Perhaps even
On 8/23/05, todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would expect the tv out quality (s-video) to be approx. the same
However the pvr-350 has hardware to encode the signal back to whatever
tv standard you have defined for it. The NV card uses software for this
process, unless you have a
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
the HD died).
Dave wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
Don't you have wiggles along the very edge of the screen? On my TV,
the sides are wavy or suck inward when the screen is mostly white.
On 8/23/05, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must say that watching movies and such is excellent with the NVidia. The
progressive content looks
Dr. C Mythology wrote:
Don't you have wiggles along the very edge of the screen? On my TV,
the sides are wavy or suck inward when the screen is mostly white.
On 8/23/05, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must say that watching movies and such is excellent with the NVidia. The
My FX5200 is terrible compared to my PVR 350. No contest. Maybe these
people either:
1.) Have terrible TVs
2.) Use the DVI output on the FX5200?
One more data point:
I'm using the TV-out on my PVR-350 instead of the DVI on my FX5200.
No matter what I've done with the nvidia drivers, I
Bit it doesn't happen when watching regular TV and DVDs (well, maybe
very very little once in a while). And I've tested on another TV which
is only a year old, and the problem still occurs. However, it looks
better when decreasing the brightness.
On 8/23/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
My FX5200 is terrible compared to my PVR 350. No contest. Maybe these
people either:
1.) Have terrible TVs 2.) Use the DVI
Is now a good time to ask for links/resources to:
a. properly config/tweak fx5200 TV output
b. install/update to these latest/greatest PVR350 improvements (for
those of use who aren't hip to the lingo or need some hand holding ;)
)
E.
--
http://www.byopvr.com
On 8/23/05, Michael T. Dean
Le mardi 23 août 2005 à 08:25 -0400, Brian Stults a écrit :
Mark Gardner wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 01:23 pm, Dr. C Mythology wrote:
Don't you have wiggles along the very edge of the screen? On my TV,
the sides are wavy or suck inward when the screen is mostly white.
Maybe you don't have enough overscan or something. My MythTV box is hooked up
to my roommate's
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 05:32 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
My FX5200 is terrible compared to my PVR 350. No contest. Maybe these
people either:
Michael T. Dean wrote:
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
My FX5200 is terrible compared to my PVR 350. No contest. Maybe these
people either:
1.) Have terrible
Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two
abovementioned chipsets?
Advantages / Disadvantages, I have a 350 and have struggled on and off
now for about 5 months to get it to work (Got it to work once but then
the HD died).
Mostly interested in quality of TV playback.
Thanks
--
I would expect the tv out quality (s-video) to be approx. the same
However the pvr-350 has hardware to encode the signal back to whatever
tv standard you have defined for it. The NV card uses software for this
process, unless you have a on-board hardware encoder for tv out.
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