[mythtv-gta]: A MythTV building workshop?

[William Park]

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:22:10PM -0400, William Park wrote:

> > As I was  browsing "TV tuner" section, I noticed that practically all are
> > PCI-E x  1.  And, another thing I noticed is all the specs only mentioned
> >  "input" to these cards.  But, I want to watch TV on TV.  So, where  is
> > "output"?  Do I connect the TV to my graphic card, or these "TV  tuner"
> > cards?
> 
> Except for the PVR-350 (that I know of), the answer  has always been that
> output is from your graphics card.
> 
> For HDTV that  is actually simple these days given DVI to HDMI is a
> trivial cable.

Okey.  I thought those cards were just a barebone version of TV tuner/converter
box, where we provide the case and the power supply.  If output is going out
through graphic card, is "integrate graphic chip" sufficient?  Or, do I need 
separate 

graphic card?
-- 
William



--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists