TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:15 PM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote: Often enough, yes. You just need to look for the appropriate ports; some of the REALLY cheap ones only have a tuner and nothing else. I really liked the AVI TV Wonder that I have (CX2388x-based, red PCB); it had a little purple breakout box with the composite, S-Video and audio connections so that everything else could fit on the card bracket. For Linux, my best luck has been with bt848/878 (almost the same chip) followed by CX2388x (the next step up after Conexant bought Brooktree; there are newer chips in the series that support e.g. PCI Express, but I don't know their level of support under Linux). There are a handful of Philips chips supported, but I've never tried them. The Windows viewing apps that come with the cards are almost universally terrible, but a good third-party one I've used is DScaler (it's been a while since I've fooled around with it, though, and they were going through a major project renovation, so it could be either better or worse by now). For Linux, I always preferred fbtv, but most people don't like fooling around with the framebuffer layer any more than they have to. I really liked the ability the framebuffer layer gave me to create custom graphics modes with weird sizes and fixed frequencies that optimized the experience; alas, none of that is likely to work well without an analog monitor anymore. I also liked being able to just start the viewer without having to start X. I don't know what the general favorite is for operating it under X; when I was using it, it was xawtv. I imagine that MythTV probably has a Video4Linux backend? - Dave