osxgus Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Hi All, I am looking for a good gfx card that has working VGA AND TV-Out output, I need this since I have a projector and a 32" CRT widescreen TV, that are hooked up with my leopard HTPC. I have built in GMA950 which works ok but with mouse-tearing on the projector. I have also tried a nVidia 7300GT card which works great with VGA and no tearing, on the projector, but the tv-out doesn't work properly (could maybe be fixed??), I also tried a genuine apple DVI to Composite /Svideo converter to get tv output, but I get nothing out of that from the Nvidia card. Reading the wiki didn't help much since noone seems to list tvout compability. So does anyone know of a gfx card on the cheap, not outdated that can either get 100% tvout, or tvout with help of the dvi port and an apple dvi-composite dongle? I have searched the forum and tried a lot of things, so please just constructive help, and if I have missed something, please link to what I couldn't find. Cheers, Gus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelano Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I just bought a MSI HD2600XT for around $70 that should get here Thursday. I also have the genuine Apple DVI-TVOut converter and I am going to see how to get this to work. The card has 2 DVI-I (digital and analog integrated) on it and others have reported the 2600's to work with the adapter. I will let you know my results as soon as I can. I can't guarantee Thursday however because I have a final exam Friday morning and two more early next week. -sdelano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djrhettmc Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I can vouch also that the Apple DVI to composite/Svideo adapter does not work with NVINJECT 2.0 dual script on a 7300GT. I notice that during bootup, the SVIDEO cable WORKS up until the apple logo, then goes away.... Keep us up to date if there is a similar ATI card that works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxgus Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 @dj for me SVIDEO OUT sort of works during startup, but not properly. the picture is black&white but i do see the logo, and then both screens (projector/VGA) and tv-out goes black.. Gus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelano Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 The card I mentioned above (MSI HD2600XT works great with the Apple DVI-TVout adapter and Natit). I would love to check the regular TVOut for you (should have done it when everything was working) but I...um....f'ed up my mobo with a bad bios flash and need to send it back for a new one. Haha isn't that great? All just so I could boot off of a SATA DVD drive... -sdelano Oh yeah I don't know about using this card in an HTPC though...its one of those double tall cards and is extra long. I don't know what kind of case you're running this in so this maybe a problem. Its not a loud card, just BIG... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobiebro Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 @dj for me SVIDEO OUT sort of works during startup, but not properly. the picture is black&white but i do see the logo, and then both screens (projector/VGA) and tv-out goes black.. Gus This is the same issue I have with my leopard mediacenter when I use the TV-out (S-video). I hope this can be fixed, seeing as it worked before in tiger. I had some succes using 10.4.8 drivers NVidia kexts. I got TV-out signal up and running, resolution switching and color profiles, but no CI/QE, so no front row or accelerated video playback . I think it's something in the graphics framework, so maybe it would be useful if someone had the knowledge how to, to compare these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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