[mythtv-users] ?'s on GF4 Video Card (tv out) + Other assortiedthoughts

[Jeremy Oddo]

I've got the VERY same card.  I've figured out how to do a TV-OUT CLONE
(so that my second head, the TV, clones the first head).  It's an OK
setup; however, I need to run both at 640x480.  I can set my monitor to
1024x768 and the TV to 640x480 but when I go to watch TV, myth starts in
full frame and the TV image gets cropped.

How did you get your TV-OUT to work?  Are you doing a clone?  If not, got
any pointers?  Can I check out your XF86Config-4 file?


Jeremy

David Madsen said:
> I've got a Geforce 440 MX running in mine without any problems.  The TV
> out works great.  mine is a PNY branded one..
>
> Dave Madsen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Choukalos" <choukalos at yahoo.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:37 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] ?'s on GF4 Video Card (tv out) + Other
> assortiedthoughts
>
>
>> All,
>>
>> Okay, I've got my RH8.0 media server up and running.
>> I've got the TV out signal hooked to an RF modulator,
>> through a low pass signal piped into my entire home
>> cable network.  I'm sitting on the couch mucking
>> around with the ATI RF remote... and suddenly a couple
>> serious questions poped into my head.  Please forgive
>> me for not really paying too much attention to these
>> before but.
>>
>> 1.  On the ATI remote, how the 'heck' do you get it to
>> Map one of the special buttons to the "Escape" key!
>> I've insmod ati_remote, and I hacked up the
>> avview.modfile and put it in .xmodparc and it seems to
>> work.  But I can't get the Escape or Space key to
>> work?  Any ideas/Suggestions?  Am I missing a module I
>> need to add?  FYI, I didn't add usbmouse because I'm
>> not interested in using the mouse feature... just want
>> a simple RF remote
>>
>> 2.  The TV out quality Blows major chunks.  I mean its
>> utterly horriable.  Now, I tried direct from TV on
>> card to S-Video on a TV and its the same.  When I tune
>> my beatup VCR hooked to my Sony TV... the Macrovision
>> starts its fight... but I get a gorgeously clean B/W
>> picture on the TV.  So, my big question is WTF!  How
>> do I get a nice clean, crisp picture on my TV's?
>> Right now, I have a green bar on the left side of the
>> tube, I get an annoying flickering scan line that
>> sweeps down, and the picture is lots of over saturated
>> color and really really blurry.  Ie... .any writting
>> on the screen looks terrible (blurred and muddied).
>> Is this what everyone's seeing, or has anyone managed
>> to get a GF4 card to produce a really nice picture?
>> Do I have to play with Modeline's again?  or is there
>> some trick?  Any suggestions (and yes the nvtv program
>> doesn't seem to work with my card... tried it
>> already).
>>
>> 3.  I've noticed that I'm having a lot of problems
>> with old recordings (mythtv) whenever I switch
>> versions/etc.  Between
>>     V.4 and V.8(CVS) what's changed?  When I try to
>> play the old recordings mythtv pukes out.  Do I just
>> need to
>>     renecode the old recordings to divx or whatever
>> with the patched mplayer and clean up the database to
>> be done
>>     with it.  Or is the patch only going to work on
>> the older recordings?  Also, anyone have a link to the
>> mplayer source
>>     that works with the patch 0.90rc1?  I can't find
>> it any more... the lowest I've found is rc2.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>> P.S.:  Sorry Issac, I sent this from the wrong email
>> account... Feel free to disregard it.
>>
>> P.S.2:  How's got a good TV out quality and what setup
>> are they using?  I mean, I want something that's going
>> to be on par with the new Replay TV (5000's) they look
>> pretty spiffy in 480p on a nice HDTV set.
>>
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