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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:14:25PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1. February 2005 20:24, Adam Maloney wrote:
> > Sorry, one more thing.  Recommendations on a video card with TV-out to
> > feed all of this into the 'tube...
> 
> Cards supported by nvidia's freebsd driver are pretty much the only ones with 
> working TV-out at the moment.

My Radeon 9600 works okay for TV out. IIRC you might need to plug it in before
you start the computer and then it just runs on the TV by default. However, 
getting the best settings for X was a bit more hassle.

I found this out while trying to watch DVD's out and about, without a laptop
but with a shoebox sized PC and a TV. In the end I just used the TV as a monitor
and an 848 card and my TV viewer application [*] seemed to be better than
the tuner in the real TV!

	Steve

[*] Most other TV viewers historically froze up most of my hardware, so
I've rolled my own viewer (C/Xlib) that seems to be gentler on the hardware.