[mythtv-users] VGA -SCART and interlace (2x)

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Sat Sep 26 10:52:08 UTC 2009


Paul Gardiner wrote:
> John wrote:
>> YES !!! Thanks Paul, you put me on the right track. I understood the 
>> need not to scale, but as I had all the zooming scaling and aspect 
>> ratio turned off, and the Video res exactly matched the modeline, 
>> everything should work (a clue -- no ).
>>
>> I was setting the aspect ratio in Xorg to ensure aspect Ratio 
>> detection worked with
>> Option         "DPI" "75x100"
>>
>> I changed that to
>>
>> Displaysize 260 145
>>
>> and now the Display rectangle matches the video rectangle. Not 
>> completely sure I understand this, as the picturee on the TV look the 
>> same, except as there is no scaling the "interlacing (x2)" works as 
>> advertised. Excellent !
> 
> Great. I can't say I really understand what was wrong with the previous
> set up if the picture looked the same. I guess there must have been
> just a slight scaling.  Good to hear it's working now, anyway.

Just in case I ever have another go with my FX5200, what video
drivers are you using?

P.



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