[mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out

[Martin Cosgrave]

On Monday 09 June 2003 13:30, Mark Edwards wrote:
> Hey Martin, Yeah I use vesa with mine (don't think anything else works?)
> but video isn't jerky at all.

for me the software scaling (no Xv) means that both live TV and recorded 
mythtv movies are pretty jerky - enough to be annoying, and I have an Athlon 
2k+ too.

I sort of suspected that there might be some precise settings for VertRefresh 
and HorizSync which would force the TV output to sync up correctly. Haven't 
been able to find them empirically though.

> I've set up mplayer defaults to use x11 which works very well.
> liveTV is jerky, but thats because my hware mpeg encoder hasn't arrived
> yet, and to get what I consider watchable TV through myth my Athlon2000+
> isn't fast enough.
>
> attached is my XF86config file.
>
> Let me know how you get on
>
> cheers
> Mark.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Cosgrave" <martin at bettercode.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:03 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > Has anyone succesfully got an ATI Radeon 7000 to work with TV Out? It
>
> works
>
> > flawlessly with the XF86Config file set to "vesa" but obviously there is
>
> no
>
> > hardware acceleration and the movies come out jerky (mythtv also comes up
>
> in
>
> > a window instead of fullscreen).
> >
> > When I use the "ati" or "radeon" drivers, the TV loses sync as soon as X
> > starts. I've tried various combinations of HorizSync and VertRefresh to
> > no avail.
> >
> > I'm using gentoo, I've tried with both the "ati-drivers" package, and
> > with
>
> the
>
> > "drm-trunk" package which apparently contains some v4l patches (kraken
> > patch?) and the drm stuff. In frustration I've fallen back to using a
>
> generic
>
> > nVidia whose video output is a lot poorer than the ati.
> >
> > Martin Cosgrave
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