[mythtv-users] Can anyone recommend a good gfx card with a goodtvout? How about geforce4mx?

[David Rees]

On Tue, December 23, 2003 at 8:38 am, Edward Wildgoose wrote:
>> What I want is to have perfect tvout quality, with no rescaling needed.
>> So ideally have xfree setup to run at > 720x576x24bit.
>> Is that possible? On a geforce4mx?
>
>> I tried setting my xfree config to that resolution, but it didnt work.
>> Of course I was trying to display that resolution on my monitor, so that
>> could be the reason that it didnt want to work.
>
> It does work, and in fact my card Nvidia 5200 can't do 768x576 only
> 720x576 (when using TV out that is.).  You need to generate a modeline for
> this though because there are no 50Hz modelines shipped with X (for
> whatever reason).

I'm confused, for TV-out, aren't we supposed to be using 60Hz modelines
for TV-out?  Or is this a PAL specific or non-US specific setting for
other TVs?

-Dave