[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Tue Oct 7 21:42:43 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 13:45 US/Pacific, Chris Poch wrote:

> I have a Dell Precision M60 laptop that has a 1920 x 1200 LCD panel.  
> I do have Myth installed on the laptop, but it's not my Myth box, 
> since it has no tuner card.  The M60 has a 128MB nVidia Quadro FX 
> Go700 video card.

Damn. Nice laptop.

> I had all kinds of problems trying to use the open source "nv" driver, 
> but the official "nvidia" driver works perfectly.  I don't have any 
> 1920 x 1200 video files, but if you have some video that you would 
> like me to test, I'd be happy to let you know if nvidia cards have 
> similar problems under linux.

I've got several nVidia cards of my own, actually, but thanks for the 
offer.

> I can provide you with a temporary sftp account on my box for 
> uploading a file.

Even a minute would be a pretty chunky file...

> I'd be curious to see how high def video looks on my LCD panel anyways.

Probably pretty amazing. :)

> Maybe it will sell me on a HD card for my box :)

I'll see about getting a little test clip or two together for ya to 
look at...

--Jarod

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