[mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

[Joe Votour]

It depends on what your video card is capable of, as
well as what the TV is capable of.

The PVR-350, for instance, outputs only at 720x480 for
NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL), which is the native
resolution.  At this resolution, there is no up or
down sampling of the picture.

Your video card is certainly more than capable of
doing 640x480.  You'll need to check your Xorg (or
XFree86) logs to see if there are any errors.  It's
possible that the modelines aren't quite correct for
your TV, and that you won't get anything better than
640x480 without some tweaking.

Also, since I have an nVidia card, I'm not familiar
with what the ATI drivers can do, but there might some
driver options that you can use.

-- Joe

--- David Bennett <davidbennett1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>  Just a quick question. I have finally managed to
> get X11 to make use
> of my ATi Tv-out that is internal to my motherboard.
> The problem is,
> it looks like crap. The only resolution that I get
> legible text is at
> 640x480.
> 
> The bigger problem is, I have never hooked up a PC
> to TV before so I
> am not sure how it is supposed to look. Are there
> some sort of
> settings I could fiddle with to get a clearer
> pictures? 800x600 and
> 1024x768 make anything like reading e-mail or
> visiting websites
> impossible. Is 640x480 the best I am going to get?
> 
> A little insight, advice, and perhaps ideas on what
> to fiddle with
> would be great.
> 
> Thank you kindly,
> David
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