[mythtv-users] two and one

[Chris Petersen]

> Looking around I found reference to the RCA connector on the back being
> tv-out and other references to it being SPDIF, is there a jumper for
> swapping these on the motherboard (it'd be nice to not have cables hanging
> out the front).  Since there's S-Video out, I wouldn't really want to use
> the composite out anyway.  How well does the video out work on this?  Can
> you post the X configuration you needed to make this work properly?

spdif and rca are completely different protocols (I don't know much
about spdif, but was under the impression that it was optical).  And no,
I doubt there's any way to make the rca plug do anything other than rca
video.

Here's the important stuff from my XF86Config file.  Basically, the only
REALLY important thing is the XVOnCRT2 section (for some reason, it
doesn't default like it should, and needs to be on to turn on the tv
ports).  Also, the ForceCRT2Type also seems to need to be manually
tweaked.   I don't think the overscan setting actually does anything
(though I wish it would), but I left it set, anyway.

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "sis"
    Option      "XvOnCRT2"  "true"
#   Option      "ForceCRT2Type" "SVIDEO"
    Option      "ForceCRT2Type" "TV"
    Option      "CHTVOverscan"  "false"
    VendorName  "Silicon Integrated Systems"
    BoardName   "SiS 315/650"
    VideoRam    65536
EndSection


-Chris