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

Kyle Sexton ksexton at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 11:51:58 EDT 2004


NVidia GeForce4MX 4000 w/ 128M, made by eVGA I think.


On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:04:21 -0400 (EDT), David Wood <obsidian at panix.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 
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> 
> 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)
> >
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