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Old 06-17-2005, 01:44 PM
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TV-out from Video Card w/ SageTV
I currently use a PVR-350, so I've never messed with my video card's capability to output from Sage. I am getting a PVR-500MCE, so I'll need to configure out from my video card soon.

Do I need to configure anything in my NVidia DesktopManager for this to work OR does SageTV completely manage all output for me with cards that do not have TV-out like the 350?

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Old 06-18-2005, 01:32 AM
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My understanding is that you would still just use the output from the 350, adding new tuners doesn't change that.

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Old 06-18-2005, 09:49 AM
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I'm selling the 350, so I won't have that option anymore. Its a PCI slot problem for me.... Moving to 2 tuners on 1 card is a necessity.

With the PVR-500, I'll need to run the TV-out from my video card somehow. Just trying to get prepared for that day with a little up-front beta.
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Old 06-18-2005, 11:53 AM
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SageTV does not manage anything about video card TV-out -- it is all done in the Video card drivers... Sage just thinks it's displaying to the desktop... You can even play with it now..

One word of warning: Video cards' TV out is nowhere near the quality of a PVR-350's TV-out (for various reasons)
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Old 06-18-2005, 04:28 PM
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I have a 6600 GT , which I use to output to the TV via S-Video, The quality is as good as the 350 TV out.
I have a 350 as a capture card, and run the output into a seperate AV channel on my TV, so that when I do display config, I can compare it.

Having said that - It's not a cheap option (Given that Im cheap ) It was about 130 GBP (Approx 220 Dollars)

I copied the settings that Stanger used for his 6800 GT.


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Old 06-18-2005, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by nielm
SageTV does not manage anything about video card TV-out -- it is all done in the Video card drivers... Sage just thinks it's displaying to the desktop... You can even play with it now..

One word of warning: Video cards' TV out is nowhere near the quality of a PVR-350's TV-out (for various reasons)
I've got DVI out on my card, so hoping that is pretty good, 350 is only s-video. My card is not awesome by any means, but should do.
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