[mythtv-users] MythTv component out HOWTO

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 02:31:12 UTC 2006


On 4/10/06, Jeff Wormsley <daworm at comcast.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > Overscan is purely a TV issue. Each TV will have a different level of
> > overscan, 5% per side is about the average. This means that the
> > picture your tv gets from your video card will be cropped the same
> > amount as what it gets from a DVD player or cable box, etc.
> >
> >
> I don't think in this case it is purely the TV.  I can hook my DCT-6200
> cable box to the TV, and via the service menu in the TV move the image
> right and left and see that my overscan there is roughly 2" (on a 54"
> widescreen) on each side, and about 1" up and down.  With the GeForce
> 6200 (annoying coincidence in model numbering) it is more like 5" on
> each side and 3" up and down.  Nothing is changed on the TV, and even
> the same cables are used.  That tells me that what the video card is
> putting out isn't the same as what is coming out of the cable box.  And
> of course, as mentioned, you can't change what is coming out via any
> known modeline or X setting.

Strange, it should be the same. My TV its the same whether I use my
DCT6200 straight, the internal tuner, or my FX5200.

Are you using the NVidia component output or DVI?

--
Steve


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