[mythtv-users] Dedicated hardware recommendations

[Chris Delis]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:00:56PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Steve Hill wrote:
> ...
> >Does Myth sync properly with all graphics cards or is it just the Nvidia 
> >cards (a look at the source shows it looking at /dev/nvidia0 so it seems 
> >to have Nvidia-specific code in there, but I'm not sure if it has code for 
> >other cards too?)
> 
> The nVidia driver 4363 has a feature that allows MythTV to
> try to update the framebuffer during VBI. This feature is
> broken in the current nVidia 44xx driver. No other cards
> support this feature. AFAIK, there is no similar feature
> for the PVR-350. For cards other than the nVidia with A/V
> Sync turned on, myth will try to update the frames at equal
> intervals but has no idea when the VBI happens.
> 
> The advantage of the PVR-350 is that there is a one-to-one
> alignment of the scanlines. However, I've experimented with
> setting the nVidia TVOverScan to 1.0, 640x480 (Nx576 for PAL)
> deinterlace off, no myth GUI height adjustment and no myth
> overscan height adjustment. This appears to align scanlines
> as well fixing most interlace problems and the images look
> more vivid.

I have to ask (or did I ask this already before?  ...can't remember) :

What does CNN look like with your nvidia card?  Does the ticker
scroll smoothly across the screen?  Can you post an example of this
somewhere?