[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out
James L. Paul
james at mauibay.net
Tue Nov 11 22:10:30 EST 2003
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16:43, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> Does the TV-out (the S-video output, as I understand) from the PVR-350
> card (when using the hardware decoder in MythTV) just work? Or does
> it require lots of tweaking of the XF86Config file in order to get the
> picture looking decent? I'm just wondering since I'm considering
> purchasing a PVR-350 and wanted to know how well the TV-out would
> work. I have a 4:3 NTSC 27" TV, and I really want MythTV's output to
> make it over to the TV. Background: I previously spent about 3 hours
> trying to get my Geforce2 GTS card to output a decent picture to my
> TV, and finally gave up, since the TV picture was always poor (it
> didn't fill the entire screen, or was curved near the corners of the
> screen).
I can't answer the PVR-350 questions as I don't have one yet. However, I am
using a GeForce2 GTS for TV output and find it to be the best quality of the
three nVidia cards I have. It sounds like you were not adjusting the overscan
and position of your GTS card. I just call nvtv from a script that starts all
my Myth processes and my TV picture looks very good.
> I understand there is some ongoing development to get the MythTV menus
> to be displayed via the TV out, but I'm mainly concerned about the
> MPEG->TV conversion. Thanks for any advice,
I'm seriously considering adding a PVR-350, but I'm waiting for things to
settle down first. Plus, I often use fullscreen visualizations with
MythMusic, which I understand don't work with the 350.
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