[mythtv-users] TV Out problems using S-Video to Composite Adapter

Jason Elwell elwell at smartlp.com
Fri Jul 23 10:56:42 EDT 2004


I cant really answer your question, but wanted to say that I am 
currently using one of the S-video to composite adapter on my Radeon 
tvout without any problems.  The adaptor looks like a yellow 
Tootsie-Roll and was bundled with my card when I bought it.

-Jason
www.htpcskins.com

Kyle Sexton wrote:

>I am having problems with X11 displaying properly to my television and
>I'm wondering if the culprit could be that I'm converting from S-Video
>on the card to Composite on my television.  The television itself is
>an old 24 inch TV.  The output card I'm using is an NVidia GeForce4MX
>4000 w/ 128M.  Has anyone had any luck doing this type of conversion?
>I've tried just about every output option I could find in my
>XF86Config, including the TVOutFormat as both SVIDEO and COMPOSITE.
>The display that I do get is in color, and has ghosting lines next to
>dialog boxes.  That's what I can see when it's not out of sync and
>jumping everywhere.  So I guess my question is, do I need to either
>downgrade to a card w/ composite outs, or upgrade to a TV w/ SVideo in
>to get this to work?  Or are there other troubleshooting steps I need
>to try?
>
>Slightly OT:  Is there a list of terms for problems so that I can
>describe what I am seeing better?
>
>Thanks,
>Kyle
>
>obligatory spec list in case required:
>AMD 1.4Ghz w/ 256M
>PVR-250 In (Even though I haven't gotten that far.. :) )
>NVidia GeForce4MX 4000 w/ 128M
>CMedia Sound (I think, haven't had any problems w/ this)
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