[mythtv-users] Recommendations?

[Bryan Murphy]

Sure thing!  I'm running Mandrake 9.1.  I installed the most recent 
Nvidia drivers from their web site, and then I only changed the device 
section of the config file (so in other words everything is stock except 
for this section).

I've got a few extra meta-modes sections as I was playing around with 
different resolutions to figure out what worked best for the card, but 
1024x768 does fine and MythTV/Mplayer run at lower resolutions anyway.

I had to set my TVOverscan to 0.4 to get the picture to fit on my TV, 
you might need to play around with that a bit.  There was about an inch 
and a half of screen space on all four sides that was being cut off by 
my TV (of course it's a big TV so an inch and a half is relative to that).

As I said before, using mplayer to play a DVD looks fantastic over 
svideo now.  The mpegs I capture with my WinTV PVR 250 leave a little to 
be desired though.  Right now it's good enough for recording shows I 
know I'm going to miss, but I don't really want to use it for live tv yet.

Bryan

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "DPMS"

    Option "NoLogo" "1"
    Option "RenderAccel" "1"

    Option "TwinView" "1"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt,tv"
    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
    Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
    Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
    Option "TVOverScan" "0.4"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
    Option "DigitalVibrance" "0"
    Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768; 1024x768, 1024x768"
#    Option "MetaModes" "800x600, 800x600; 800x600, 800x600"
#    Option "MetaModes" "640x480, 640x480; 640x480, 640x480"
EndSection


>>>I'm watching my "Dark City" DVD right now, running on my P3/900mhz
>>>through and Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 card to my TV over SVideo.  The
>>>picture is even better than my DVD player!  Needless to say tomorrow I'm
>>>probably going to completely phase my DVD player out of my setup.  No
>>>point in using it now.  I have nothing but good things to say about the
>>>Nvidia card so far.
>>>      
>>>
>
>Would you mind sharing your XF86Config.  I have this card as well.
>
>Thanks,
>Larry
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