[mythtv-users] Nvidia MX440 and BAD tv-out quality

[Clint Silvester]

Myster Man wrote:

>Well probably not a good solution, but what I did was turn on the XV
>stuff from the menus and use the XV color controls F button when
>watching recording to turn down the red. Like I said not the best
>solution, but works for me.
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I tried that, too, but the rest of the stuff always looked dingy.  I am 
wondering if it's hardware or not with these.  I hope trying that 
utility will help.  I hear that it is supposed to work with older 
version of the drivers, but I don't know about that part of it (color 
controls).

>On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 20:45, Clint Silvester wrote:
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>>rgoodkin at zaius1.homeunix.org wrote:
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>>>Hello,
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>>>I think this is probably related to all nivida cards.. got tv-out 
>>>working fine in clone mode, well not fine.  The REDS on the TV display 
>>>ware WAY to red and its not very bright, the CRT monitor looks fine.  
>>>How can I adjust this?  I've seen this post before but never with any 
>>>good responses.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Bob
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>>I had this with my MSI micro ATX board's onboard video.  The reds were 
>>way too low at first, but anything with somewhat high red was blinding.  
>>I tested this with (I think it was a program called colortest), and it 
>>showed no red all the way to about 75% and then it shot up 
>>dramatically.  It also looked like the the gamma on the green and blue 
>>was low.  I figured it was bad hardware, but I decided to get a seperate 
>>card instead.  I have installed beta nvidia drivers on my desktop and 
>>they do have gamma/brightness/contrast adjustments in a utility that 
>>comes with it, so I'm going to try that sometime soon, but right now I 
>>have a cheapo radeon-based card with tv-out and their drivers on it, and 
>>it works well as long as I don't switch to the console, otherwise the 
>>display gets messed on the X session.  If you want to try the beta 
>>drivers, they are on www.minion.de.
>>
>>Clint Silvester
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