[mythtv-users] anyone tried a vga -> scart adapter for watching TV ?

[cythraul]

Hi Cory,

I'd be interested to know more about what you use to convert vga to
s-video signal. I've been looking into this for a while now as an
alternate solution to the poor tv-out quality that my MX440 outputs.
Until I can get my G550 running on tvout, it sounds like such a device
would be ideal.

Also, what modeline are you using? And on which video adapter?

Thanks!
cythraul

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:28:29 -0400 (EDT), Cory Papenfuss
<papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> wrote:
> > Has anyone expirience with this (or a similar) solution ?
> >
>        I'm in the US (non-SCART), but built a similar creature to convert
> the VGA signal into an NTSC-encoded S-vid signal.  Aside from video card
> driver bugs with interlacing and the fact that you can't see "normal" VGA,
> the picture quality is excellent.  You need to use *exact* modeline
> timings for the video standard you are using.
> 
>        I suspect that quality complaints from people are due to poor
> quality construction.  Bad circuit layout will definately affect video
> picture quality.
> 
> -Cory