[vdr] Re: choosing a FF card

[Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>]

Per Mellander wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:51:44 +0000, Ian Molton wrote
> > 2) How much control over video output is there? my biggest problem 
> > with my current setup is that the TV overscan is unadjustable and 
> > far too large. 3) Is the TV output properly interlaced? what about 
> > when playing a DVD which is progressive-scan (most movies) ?
> The best thing to do is getting an 'older' card ( rev 1.3 or 1.5 I think 
> they're named ), and use the RGB output capabilitys. Maybe feed the signal to 
> an iScan or similar to adjust over/underscan.
Ugh. So if I understandf you correctly, the overscan isnt controllable 
in the card?

My TV has only got composite input (bleh) and the last thing I need to 
be doing is adding scan converters (or anything else for that matter) 
into the chain... the quality is bad enough already ;-)

on an alternative note - does the iScan convert any RGB out of the 
correct frame size to composite TV? if so, I could connect it to the RGB 
(VGA) output on the PC and play the video through that. but how would it 
cope with interlacing ?

> > basically, I want really really good TV output from both DVB and DVD,
> > possibly divx (how does that work on these cards?) too.
> With the mplayer plugin you can watch DivX etc. ( Needs CPU for DivX->MPEG )
how much CPU? My system is an ME6000 so its not got a lot of grunt really...