[mythtv-users] Re: monitor and tv out with nvidia drivers

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 15:52 US/Pacific, Andrew Ingram wrote:

>> In mythfrontend -> Setup -> DVD Settings -> Play Settings, there is a
>> place you can edit the mplayer (or other player) launch command, and
>> you should be able to add it there.
>>
>
> Actually, I tried that. But it seemed that those fields weren't 
> editable
> - it was just a drop down box of various things capable of showing
> dvds/vcds with completed command lines. Any changes I tried to make 
> were
> not being saved.

Ah, must be a change in CVS then, because I'm able to edit on 0.11, and 
there's no drop-down. D'oh!

> I haven't looked into it anymore since I ran into
> another snag. When I was using twinview, I was sometimes getting
> horizontal tearing whilst watching live tv during heavy scene 
> scrolling.

Do you have de-interlace turned on? That helps significantly w/tearing 
if you don't have it on already...

> I've put this down to the extra strain of running 2 screens. This 
> wasn't
> happening when both screens were at the same resolution, so I'm 
> thinking
> my 1600x1200, 1024x768 is too much (especially as the 1024 res becomes
> 1024x1200 effectively). I'm going to experiement with different
> resolutions to see what I can get away with though.

I suppose it could be a bit much for the card...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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