On 4/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Votour</b> <<a href="mailto:joevph@yahoo.com">joevph@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It depends on what your video card is capable of, as<br>well as what the TV is capable of.<br><br>The PVR-350, for instance, outputs only at 720x480 for<br>NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL), which is the native<br>resolution. At this resolution, there is no up or
<br>down sampling of the picture.<br><br>Your video card is certainly more than capable of<br>doing 640x480. You'll need to check your Xorg (or<br>XFree86) logs to see if there are any errors. It's<br>possible that the modelines aren't quite correct for
<br>your TV, and that you won't get anything better than<br>640x480 without some tweaking.<br><br>Also, since I have an nVidia card, I'm not familiar<br>with what the ATI drivers can do, but there might some<br>driver options that you can use.
<br><br>-- Joe</blockquote><div><br>
David<br>
<br>
I run TV out from an NVidia card to a regular TV and the desktop
certainly looks like crap, but the mythtv output should look OK. Is
regular mythtv TV viewable ?<br>
<br>
What about playing DVDs ? If it looks like regular TV you are probably doing ok.<br>
<br>
I know you ATI owners hate this, but the nvidia-settings utility allows
about a 20-30% improvement in the appearance of TV out by tweaking a
few sliders. However, it would still suck to have a TV as a desktop.<br>
<br>
As a sidenote, I thought that a ATI 9200 card with TV-out that my gf
has on a windows box actually looks better than the output from my
NVidia card, but the pain and failure to get it working with Linux was
too much :-((((<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Jonathan<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--- David Bennett <<a href="mailto:davidbennett1979@gmail.com">davidbennett1979@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello!<br>><br>> Just a quick question. I have finally managed to<br>> get X11 to make use<br>> of my ATi Tv-out that is internal to my motherboard.<br>> The problem is,<br>> it looks like crap. The only resolution that I get
<br>> legible text is at<br>> 640x480.<br>><br>> The bigger problem is, I have never hooked up a PC<br>> to TV before so I<br>> am not sure how it is supposed to look. Are there<br>> some sort of<br>> settings I could fiddle with to get a clearer
<br>> pictures? 800x600 and<br>> 1024x768 make anything like reading e-mail or<br>> visiting websites<br>> impossible. Is 640x480 the best I am going to get?<br>><br>> A little insight, advice, and perhaps ideas on what
<br>> to fiddle with<br>> would be great.<br>><br>> Thank you kindly,<br>> David<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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