[mythtv-users] HDTV solution @1080i ???

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv07a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:53 -0400, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> Mine is:
>>
>> 1) nVidia GeForce 7100GS
>> 2) Hitachi 51F500 Rear Projection CRT
>> 3) DVI (to DVI on the TV)
>>
>> Outputting 1080i content at 1080i without de-interlacing and without
>> tearing issues simply isn't possible with the nVidia Linux
>> drivers...period.
>
> Yes it is.
>
> It requires using the 8776 drivers, which don't work with newer video
> cards, but with my old 5200FX card (AGP), it works great.  I get a
> beautiful 1080i picture without deinterlacing or any other
> post-processing.
>
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Yup...all the awful catch-22's of this are starting to come back to me :D...

My frontend has only PCI Express slots, and there simply aren't any
such cards made that will work with 8776.

Just curious...does the 8776 driver also limit what kernel version you
can use?  It seems to me that even some of the newer drivers didn't
work with 2.6.23 without a patch.

Tom