[mythtv-users] TV Out problems using S-Video to Composite Adapter

[David Wood]

You know, it's tempting to guess that your TV or cable is the problem. I'm 
curious though, what specific nvidia card you have?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Kyle Sexton wrote:

> I am having problems with X11 displaying properly to my television and
> I'm wondering if the culprit could be that I'm converting from S-Video
> on the card to Composite on my television.  The television itself is
> an old 24 inch TV.  The output card I'm using is an NVidia GeForce4MX
> 4000 w/ 128M.  Has anyone had any luck doing this type of conversion?
> I've tried just about every output option I could find in my
> XF86Config, including the TVOutFormat as both SVIDEO and COMPOSITE.
> The display that I do get is in color, and has ghosting lines next to
> dialog boxes.  That's what I can see when it's not out of sync and
> jumping everywhere.  So I guess my question is, do I need to either
> downgrade to a card w/ composite outs, or upgrade to a TV w/ SVideo in
> to get this to work?  Or are there other troubleshooting steps I need
> to try?
>
> Slightly OT:  Is there a list of terms for problems so that I can
> describe what I am seeing better?
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
> obligatory spec list in case required:
> AMD 1.4Ghz w/ 256M
> PVR-250 In (Even though I haven't gotten that far.. :) )
> NVidia GeForce4MX 4000 w/ 128M
> CMedia Sound (I think, haven't had any problems w/ this)
>