[mythtv-users] better tv-out cards

[Craig Longman]

Eni Gma wrote:

> Craig Longman wrote:
>
>>
>> i'm getting frustrated with the squished up output i'm getting on 
>> this nvidia card i bought for tv out.  the most frustrating part is 
>> if they would have proper open-source drivers, i'm sure this would be 
>> fixed by now.
>
> Yeah, like the ATI, S3 and Matrox drivers.  They have GREAT TV-Out 
> support. 

so you can overscan those cards properely?  i'm quite partial to matrox, 
they've always seemed to be ready to provide the little guy the 
information they needed sooner than later, maybe i'll look into those. 
 which one have you used and how much are you able to adjust it?

> Many of the Nvidia cards support overscan/underscan XF86Config 
> options. Have you tried doing some adjustments there?

yeah, the newest nvidia driver supports it, but only for certain of 
their latest and greatest cards, i've got a little geforce2 (don't need 
much power to act as a tv), so no go there.

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();