[mythtv-users] ATI Radeon Linux TV Support

[nate s]

the resolutions and aspect ratio thing works out well AFAIK if you set
it up as two diofferent X screens.  (however, you won't then be able
to have mythfrontend run on both)

-Nate


On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:43:30 +0100, Jesper Sörensen
<jesper at datapartner.se> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >okay, so let's assume that I'm not interested in the AIW and all I'm
> >interested in is getting the TV-out to work with the DVI->Component dongle.
> >Also, let's assume either I'm not going to be worried about the MPEG-2
> >decoding overhead, and perhaps I'll transcode everything over to MPEG-4, so
> >the lack of XvMC support will be a moot point. Also, let's assume I'm not
> >interested in decoding 1920x1080 MPEG-2 stream (if this was the case, the
> >XvMC support would be quite nice, granted)
> >
> >Given these caveats, is the ATI still a bad choice? As stated above, I'm
> >interested in the option to use the DVI->Component adaptor and also be able
> >to use S-Video out in a stable enviroment.
> >
> 
> I'm using a 9600 and with ATI's drivers the s-video is pretty easy to
> get going, but you only get xv/overlay support on the primary head (DVI)
> which is kinda stupid. Also, maybe this is more of a X config issue but
> it's pretty painful to try and use DVI and s-video at the same time
> because they use different resolutions and aspect ratios. I never got
> that working as I wanted (clone mode with 16:9 on the DVI and 4:3 (16:9
> anamorphic) signal on the s-video port). I don't know if Nvidia is any
> better though...
> 
> 
> 
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