[mythtv-users] better tv-out cards

[Eni Gma]

Craig Longman wrote:

> Eni Gma wrote:
>
>> Craig Longman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i'm getting frustrated with the squished up output i'm getting on 
>>> this nvidia card i bought for tv out.  the most frustrating part is 
>>> if they would have proper open-source drivers, i'm sure this would 
>>> be fixed by now.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, like the ATI, S3 and Matrox drivers.  They have GREAT TV-Out 
>> support. 
>
>
> so you can overscan those cards properely?  i'm quite partial to 
> matrox, they've always seemed to be ready to provide the little guy 
> the information they needed sooner than later, maybe i'll look into 
> those. which one have you used and how much are you able to adjust it?


Doh!  It's hard to do my sarcastic voice over the internet (I tried to 
stress the "GREAT" but obviously my point did not get across).  What I 
was saying was that open-source TV-Out support is spotty at best, and 
mostly non-existent.  To assume that Nvidia's TV-out would work better 
if it were open source ignores the evidence.  The cards that do have 
open-source drivers have terrible TV-out support.  I think this is 
partly due to hardware limitations as well as the accursed Macrovision.

IIRC, Nvidia cards have an open-source driver, but it does not have 
support for the TV connectors.  I don't know what you meant by "proper 
open-source drivers" but I doubt that your problem would be fixed by now 
even if all Nvidia drivers were open.  

>
>
>> Many of the Nvidia cards support overscan/underscan XF86Config 
>> options. Have you tried doing some adjustments there?
>
>
> yeah, the newest nvidia driver supports it, but only for certain of 
> their latest and greatest cards, i've got a little geforce2 (don't 
> need much power to act as a tv), so no go there.
>
> cheers,
>
>    CraigL->Thx();
>
>
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