[mythtv-users] Doing the undoable?

[Matt Snow]

My Sony Trinitron 27 inch is running 800x600x32 fine.
I also ran my myth box on a riends TV, I beleive it was a hitatchi and it
handled 800x600 fine.

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Matt Snow
 drama at slakin.net

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Eric Jones wrote:

> Or maybe not.
>
> Okay, here's the deal. I have mythtv running on an athlon 2100+ with 521
> mb of ram. I have a pvr 250 and a pinnacle pctv for capture, and a geforce
> 3 for tv-out. My tv is an Apex 27' flat screen, and I'm in the US so it's
> NTSC for me.
>
> Now, on the TV I have a variety of input options. I can do svideo,
> component, and composite. And of course standard cable, but who needs
> that? :) I'm using straight svideo from my machine to the tv.
>
> The machine itself is running flawlessly and I have 0.14 on it. No
> problems whatsoever.
>
>
> Here's the question. I'm using the vanilla nvidia driver options for TV
> out recommended for tv's, e.g. HorizSync 30-50, VertRefresh 60.
>
> According to the proprietary nvidia driver, this means that I can run in:
>
> 640x480
> 400x300
> 320x240
>
> I can play around with the sync and refresh to get 800x600 which obviously
> needs overscan to look worth a crap. I'm willing to invest in another card
> to do this, but wouldn't dvd's look crappy upsized to that? What's the
> ideal resolution here? 720x480?
>
> I'm a bit nervous to play around with the tv settings too much because I
> don't want to smoke my TV. So - to those of you that are running happy
> mythboxes, what do you run them at?
>
> Eric
>
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