[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out

[James L. Paul]

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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16:43, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> Does the TV-out (the S-video output, as I understand) from the PVR-350
> card (when using the hardware decoder in MythTV) just work?  Or does
> it require lots of tweaking of the XF86Config file in order to get the
> picture looking decent?  I'm just wondering since I'm considering
> purchasing a PVR-350 and wanted to know how well the TV-out would
> work.  I have a 4:3 NTSC 27" TV, and I really want MythTV's output to
> make it over to the TV.  Background:  I previously spent about 3 hours
> trying to get my Geforce2 GTS card to output a decent picture to my
> TV, and finally gave up, since the TV picture was always poor (it
> didn't fill the entire screen, or was curved near the corners of the
> screen).

I can't answer the PVR-350 questions as I don't have one yet. However, I am 
using a GeForce2 GTS for TV output and find it to be the best quality of the 
three nVidia cards I have. It sounds like you were not adjusting the overscan 
and position of your GTS card. I just call nvtv from a script that starts all 
my Myth processes and my TV picture looks very good.

> I understand there is some ongoing development to get the MythTV menus
> to be displayed via the TV out, but I'm mainly concerned about the
> MPEG->TV conversion.  Thanks for any advice,

I'm seriously considering adding a PVR-350, but I'm waiting for things to 
settle down first. Plus, I often use fullscreen visualizations with 
MythMusic, which I understand don't work with the 350.
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