Video-in quality on the GeForce?

[Sea Dragon]

Hi,

I currently have my gamecube hooked up to my monitor via a Viewsonic N4 - a converter that has an S-video input. The picture is good, but I'll probably want to upgrade my video card pretty soon - (Geforce3 Ti200). I might as well see if I can kill 2 birds with one stone. ATI or Nvidia, doesn't matter to me either way - I just want one that has great S-VIDEO in quality and respectable (Ti4200 or so) performance in games.

A lot of people say that the Radeon series have the "best" VIVO functionality, but I'd like to hear some opinions. If you know of any sites that discuss video-IN (There's about a billion that discuss TV-OUT, but very few that discuss video-IN with regards to hooking up a console) please share!

[Pandur]

All I can say is that I'm not impressed with the quality of the svideo-in on my Geforce 4 Ti4600 (MSi). It produced a very "rough" image when I had my old PS1 connected to it.

*edit*
Erh oops. I had my PS1 connected to the composite-in of course. *smack head*

[ricercar]

Do you know if you have a Philips or Chrontel video encoder chip on your board? I don't recall which one is better, but I've read that they offer differnet levels of quality.

On another note, who offers VIVO on a GeForce FX 5800 Ultra? I have only Svideo out.

[Rampant CL]

Not yet, butim not sure if this is svideo in or out on my fx. Ive seen an svideo to comp in and out plug, which i think ill pick up and try

[Badash]

Leadtek 5800 ultra has VIVO

[Rampant CL]

Does this leadtek have any hardware changes froms tock fx's or is just a case of an additional svideo in which has been added to the back plate?

[Pandur]

My GF4 has the Philips 7108 vivo chip.

[Dazz]

The best TV encoder is the Conexant CX25871+ it can do 1024x768 and you can change the setting to remove the flicker on the TV.

[marcocom]

i havent tried it yet, but from what i understand the SAME s-video plug on the FX can actually be used for video in or out.

but that sounds pretty thin.

try it

[Rampant CL]

I will, i just need the cable now.

Where did i see it???