[mythtv-users] better tv-out cards

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Thu May 8 13:19:58 EDT 2003


Ray Olszewski wrote:
...
>         ATI - There is no official support for TV out by ATI or in the 
> standard X drivers. While many people refer to the experimental support 
> in an abandoned branch of the GATOS CVS drivers, I have never seen a 
> report posted  anywhere by someone saying "I got this to work".

I got this to work. You can quote me on that. I've used TV
out on several models of ATI cards both All-In-Wonder and
regular cards with TV-out.
 
TV-out support was worked out in a branch tagged "devel"
but was never merged. It is this abandoned "devel" branch
which supports TV-out. All other version do not include the
code to support TV-out. Had this branch been tagged "tvoutput"
rather than "devel" the situation would have been viewed in
a different light. 

Several people here use ATI for TV-out. There is no overscan
support, it only uses 16 bit color and the color ranges are
distorted so I now use nvidia cards for my TVs. You may have
gotten the impression that GATOS never works because almost
all postings about GATOS concern using AIW for TV capture and
that simply will not work.
 
--  bjm



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