[mythtv-users] ntsc video out

Calvin Harrigan calvinharrigan at earthlink.net
Sun May 4 21:44:38 EDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 16:17, Craig Longman wrote:
> thanks for all the advice.  i'm frustrated at getting this going, the 
> output works fine in text mode, but looks like it switches to pal mode 
> when i start x.  i was really not wanting to install yet another manual 
> driver, but it appears i have no choice, my fault for buying nvidia i guess.
> 
> its annoying that nvtv can make it work (acceptably) though.  the 
> monitor is definitely there, i just need to figure out what frequencies 
> it needs, the numbers i get from nvtv don't work though.  i'm very 
> suspicious that the card defaults to pal though, the output looks very 
> similar to what i get if i set nvtv to pal.  i just keep feeling that if 
> i could just get it kinda working, i could fiddle with xvidtune and take 
> it all the way.
> 
Isn't pal at 50 hz refresh as opposed to 60 for NTSC?  Did your XFree86 config file reflect that?

Calvin...




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