[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Nov 12 08:36:16 EST 2003
Jose,
Do you have problems with MythTV locking up using the TVOut with the
350? I know this is related to the decoder-alpha drivers, just wondering
if you have that problem.
James
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:13, jose rubio wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:43, 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 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,
> > --
> > Benjamin
> > ----
> >
> The tv-out "just works" You do need to set up you XF86Config file
> exactly like it says to do so in the instructions in the ivtv-fb.c
> file. No tweaking. I also have a Geforce2 card. tv quality was ok
> after weeks of tweaking. Then I got me my threefity. Tv quality is
> better than my tivo. And the "menus" look a lot better too! you do
> have to tweak myth overscan settings to get the menus full screen though
> but that is easy. (10 minutes max). Right now, the only issue is that
> mythdvd and mythvideo do not work well with the 350 but there's a lot of
> smart people working on it right now so it will be fine soon.
> In short, tv quality cannot be better than what you get out of the 350
> (IMHO) at least without hdtv.
>
>
>
> -jose-
>
>
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