[mythtvnz] Nvidia Card with component out

[Rama Madhusudhan]

People,
Thanks for all the information provided in this thread.  I purchased an
HVR-1200 capture card and noticed that my nvidia 7200 video card playing
TV1, and TV2 without pausing.  However TV3 was a different story .. frequent
pauses - once every 4-5 seconds.  I am aware that 8xxx cards onwards support
VDPAU.  I have a CRT TV that supports 1080i on its component inputs.  I do
see the difference in picture quality on the component input between a DVB-S
and DVB-T recording/livetv.  I am loathed to purchase another TV although
they are cheap-as-chips these days.  Picking up a used card or an nvidia
8400GS silent new (for $50) seems like the answer.  The newer cards appear
to have dropped support for component video out in the extensive search I
have done.

Sincerely,
Rama

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Graeme Woollett <g.woollett at irl.cri.nz>wrote:

> Most but not all :) I have a HP/Compaq small form factor box which has
> > a P4 and a PCIe 16 slot. It has a 8400 card in it and will play 1080p
> > h264 without breaking sweat.
> >
> >
> Just not at 1080i (TV3) with nice de-interlacing.
>
> One thing that did catch me out was coupling a newer 9600GT board with
> an older m/b.  It posted but didn't output anything (at all) to the
> monitor.
> This happened on two different older (AMD) main boards.  I thought that
> PCI-E 2.0 was supposed to be backward compatible with version 1.0x
> m/b's.  Anyway I ended up having to buy a new m/b as well!
>
> So in my experience at least the current PCI-E cards may not work in a
> computer as old as you mentioned.
>
> Nevertheless if he wants a VDPAU card with component analog and enough
> grunt to do h264 2x HW de-interlacing there are 8600GT's on Trademe
> ranging from $50-80.
>
> --
> Graeme
>
>
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