[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Card with Svideo

[Paul Ingendorf]

Quoting MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>:
> 
> I am looking for something I can hook up to my TV. Kind of like a DIY
> tivo, but I want to do more than that.  Like play some games and such.
> 
> I have a wireless mouse and keyboard and have been doing this on an
> old
> card, but can only get black and white and have to reboot to switch
> from
> monitor to svideo and back.
> 
> Dual headed would be best, so I don't have to change the resolution of
> the monitor and can have the proper resolution for the svideo
> connection
> to the TV.
> 
> -- 
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
> `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
>    -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_
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This is exactly what I am doing with my setup.  The reason I picked this card 
is for the price.  It was cheap enough and had the performance I was looking 
for.  When you mirror the TV and monitor you end up with a virtual screen on 
the TV much like when you set your viewport lower than the screen size in X.  
This card does not support video input however so without adding a tuner card 
you are out of luck on the tivo functionality.  However for $400 you can get a 
real tivo with a lifetime subscription to the tivo service.  That’s $150 for 
the box and $250 for the service plus applicable taxes of course.  If you are 
able to find a series 1 unit then video extraction is truly trivial to anyone 
who has any experience with linux and another $80 for a 10/100 network card.