PC video hardware page
Index
- 3D acceleration and display
- Computer and TV
- Flat Panel Displays
- Frame grabbers and computer vision
- General info
- Monitor connections
- Monitor information
- Monitor signal timing
- Obsolete PC video card technology
- Touch screen technology
- Utilities
- Videocard hardware specific pages
- Video card expansion connectors
- Video card programming
- Video playback
General
- Accelerated Graphics Port Interface Specification
- Display technology's results are compelling, but legacy is un"clear"
- Draw workstation graphics into mainstream PCs - as PC-display resolutions increase and color depths bloom, higher refresh-rate monitors are becoming more common, graphics design based on the traditional VGA architecture cannot begin to handle the data-transfer bandwidth required for such high-resolution, "true-color," high-refresh-rate displays
- Graphics Controller '97 specification
- Hardware vs. Software cursor
- PC Video Hardware FAQ
- The Basic Top 10 Video Tips - Essential basic information on selecting and using video displays and video adapters
- VESA - organization which sets PC video standards
- Video Card Reviews at ReviewFinder
Video playback
- How to Play Movies on Your PC - how to make and playback videos using PC
- The Video Card Guide - basics of PC video cards
- Top Ten Video Tools - popular tools to play, create, and distribute video clips over the Web
3D acceleration and display
- 3dcgi.com - 3D graphics technology spotlight site
- 3D glasses and other 3D display devices
- 3D Graphics Technology Spotlight - information on links on 3D hardware and software
- Balancing in three dimensions - graphics-chip suppliers walking a tightrope to success are encountering numerous obstacles that may cause their downfall, article from EDN magazine
- Display enhancements accept no compromises - A new breed of stereo vision glasses and exotic display technologies make your 3-D dreams come true.
- Graphics Supercomputing on Windows NT 3D graphics chapter - pdf file
- Integrating Video Rendering into Graphics Accelerator Chips
- The Heatsink Guide: Graphics card cooling
- Voodoo Extreme - site devoted to 3D cards and chipsets
- Orchid Righteous 3D improvements - stop Righteous from disturbing you VGA card picture quality
- Final Reality - NEW 3D graphical benchmark from VNU European Labs
General
3D chipsets
3D card information
Benchmarks
Misc
Computer and TV
- ATI TV Wonder / All in Wonder Windows Theme - Video Desktop option so that TV is showing on your windows desktop
- BorgTV - simple TV tuner program which works on TV tuner cards with BT848/878, has some extra features like scanline doubling option
- Cable FAQ - Connecting the PC to the TV or VCR is an easy thing actually. Nevertheless there are certain problems very often. This FAQ tries to help to solve most common ones.
- Converging Computer and Television Image Portrayal - read also Spatial Oversampling
- dTV - a piece of software that grabs analog, interlaced video, and deinterlace it to make it a progressive scan feed for use on your computer monitor or projector.
- Eleven Questions You Should Ask Before Buying A Computer Video Scan Converter
- Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics
- How can I make my own SCART cable for a Marvel G200, RRG, and a Marvel G400?
- How to get Realmagic H+ output RGB for DUMMIES
- How to get VGA picture to TV screen
- How to record VGA signals to VCR
- How to show video material in computer screen
- How VGA to TV converters work - three basic conversion techniques explained
- Is is possible to view VCR picture at SVGA monitor ? - short description about problems in this
- Links to commercial VGA to TV converter products
- Linux TV - a platform for the development of open source software for digital television (DVB, DTV) receivers, Linux DVD players and tools to stream audio and video to the net
- Overview of TV encoders used on nVidia graphics cards
- pcvideomaker.com - on-line magazine for PC video making products
- Report: DVD on your TV with a PC Tips for TV-Out
- Ruel's PC-TV Web Page - Watch TV On Your PC, lists of computer TV cards, video capturing cards and radio tuners, also PC to TV converters
- Six Common Misconceptions About Converting Computer to Video
- Scan Converters Buyer's Guide - educational booklet
- The Fascination of TV cards - TV tuner card technical information
- Tomi Engdahl's video and TV technology page - very many video technology information links
- TVtool - program for controlling better nVidia TNT-chipset and TVout functionality
- VESA PC Theatre Committee's White Paper - initiative for common standards in PC and consumer electronics industry, pdf file from VESA
- VGA to TV circuits you can build yourself
- Video overlays turn PCs into TVs - overlaying video and graphics on a VGA monitor requires abundant bandwidth and horsepower, forttunately there are number of video-connection schemes, high-bandwidth buses, and high-integration chips can transform postage-stamp-sized video overlays to full-screen, full-motion displays
- What are the pinouts for a Scart-RGB cable for the Millennium G450?
Monitor information
- Basic Monitor FAQs
- Display and video devices - introduction to operation of video monitors
- Estimating Monitor Refresh Rates
- LCD Display Frequently Asked Questions
- Monitor FAQs
- Monitor repair procedure database - shareware program
- Monitors - shareware DOS program for monitor testing
- Monitor Interference and Possible Causes
- Monitor Operations - a basic explanation of how a monitor operates, also describes basic monitor terms
- Monitor testing links
- MPR monitor magnetic ald electric field limits - in Finnish
- Notes on approaches to using fixed frequency monitors on PCs
- PC Magazine review of 17" monitors (10/8/96)
- PC Monitor Specs - important technical information of over 480 monitors from Computer Shopper's 1996 monitors edition
- Performance Testing of Computer and Video Monitors
- Reducing Eyestrain from Video and Compute Monitors
- Samsung FAQ on Color Monitor
- Scan Frequencies - scan frequencies of older and newer PC video standards
- Summary of Video Standards - bried descriptions and pinouts for MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, ECL, Sun, Apollo, Apple, VGA, XGA, XGA-2, Super VGA, VESA VGA, 13W3, IBM PowerPC, SGI, NeXT, Intergraph, PGA, VGA 9 pin, 8514 and MCGA
- TouchScreen Technology Brief - from IBM
- Understanding Plug and Play in PC Monitors
Monitor connections 
- Approaches to Using Fixed Frequency or Non-Standard Monitors on PCs
- Connect VGA card to monitor with BNC connectors
- Connect 15 pin VGA card connector to 9 pin monitor connector
- DB15HD VGA Connector Pinout - the VGA port in use today
- DB9 VGA Port Pinout - VGA port pinout used many years ago
- Fixed Frequency Video FAQ
- Identifying connections on unknown or cut monitor cables
- Keyboard, Monitor & Mouse pinouts for PC, SUN, MAC, USB, Digital Flat Panel and EVC configurations
- Monitor Control-DDC
- Mono signals from VGA card
- Notes on Video Conversion - how to convert video signals from different sources to different display devices
- PC Graphics standard overview - monitor scanning frequencies in different modes
- Understanding Computer Interfacing - Interfacing, Switching, Distributing and Transmitting High Resolution Video Signals
- Use your old Workstation Monitors with Linux/XFree86
- VGA cable to monitor with 9 pin connector
- VGA card information - frequencies, monitor ID, feature connector
- VGA to workstation monitor FAQ - how to connect old workstation monitors and other special monitors to your PC
- VGA (VESA DDC) connector pinout
Monitor signal timing
- Fixed Frequency PC Video FAQ
- How multisync monitors detect the screen mode used
- IBM 6091-019 FAQ - how to use fixed frequency monitor with different graphics cards
- Modelines and Xfree86 - information for configuration of the XFree86 X Window System for your monitor
- Use your old Workstation Monitors with Linux/XFree86 - circuits and info
- VESA and Industry Standards and Guidelines for Computer Display Monitor Timing - table lists the VESA video formats
- VGA monitor signal timing information
- XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO - how to set up monitor settings on Linux Xfree86 X-Windows server program
Frame grabbers and computer vision
- A Manual for Microcomputer Image Analysis - old book from 1989 but still has some information worth to check
- Computer Vision Handbook - important ideas and techniques used in computer vision
- Computer Vision Home Page
- Connectix QuickCam hacking page - all the information on third-party drivers for the Connectix QuickCam in one place
- Digital Still Camera System block diagram
- Frame grabbers get the picture when video cameras fall short - special capture boards remain vital in real-time industrial imaging
- How to use the Matrox Meteor frame grabber card under FreeBSD and Linux
- Image Capture and Display - different camera types and analogue video signal described
- Kamera-lehden osto-opas 1999-2000 - information on digital cameras on the market, in text Finnish
- Ken's LabSpace Project Journal - high speed frame capturing under Linux
- Matrox Camera Interface Guide - how to inteface special cameras to frame grabbers from Matrox Imaging
- The Cookbook CCD Camera Home Page - to help amateur astronomers who build their own CCD cameras
- The Vision and Imaging Technology Resource - information resource for machine vision developers
- VirtualDub - video capture and processing program, check also Smart Deinterlacing Filter for VirtualDub
Flat Panel Displays
- CM112/110 Flat Panel Support - some information on flatpanel connections
- Digital Display Working Group - open industry group to address the industry's requirements for a digital connectivity specification for high-performance PCs and digital displays
- Display technology's results are compelling, but legacy is un"clear" - Microsoft and others are exploiting LCD subpixel characteristics in an attempt to economically improve the display quality of typefaces and other fine-detail images. Here's the theory behind the implementation and the reality behind the hype, along with a dose of controversy.
- The Changing Face of Interfacing - when technology evolves you can expect some changes in video display interfacing systems
- The Digital Visual Interface - digital interface designed for interfacing flat panels to PC
- World of LCDs.
Videocard hardware specific pages
- Diammond WWW pages - official pages
- Matrox WWW pages - official pages
- Matrox Users Resource Centre - Driver and BIOS Updates, documents
- Matrox Millenium XFree86 Server Home Page
- S3 - information about very popular chipset
- The Ultimate Video Accelerator Page
- TVP3026 Video Interface Palette - video DAC used in Matrox Millenium, download datasheet in pdf format
Video card expansion connectors
Touch screen technology
- Touchscreen Techmology - innovations in design and manufacture have made touchscreens tougher and more versatile
- TouchScreen Technology Brief
Video card programming
- Asphixia VGA Trainers - tutorials on basic VGA card programming
- Official VESA VBE 2.0 Specification (Replica Format)
- PC-GPE on the Web - PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia on the World Wide Web
- Standard VGA register description
- SVGA documents in PC-GPE on the Web
- The PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia 1.0 - DOS games programming information database which includes VGA programming tutorials, to download it as one file for off-line reading go to main downloading archive at X2FTP
- VESA Home Page - you can download the official VBE 2.0 standard document here (needs free registration)
- VGA card documents - different chipsets etc.
- VGADOC 4.0 - SuperVGA card low level programming document collection and test program
- VGA documents in PC-GPE on the Web
Utilities
- SciTech Display Doctor - a collection of useful utilities that fix many common problems associated with Super VGA, commercial program
Obsolete PC video card technology
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