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

[Joe Votour]

The nvidia-settings program does help a lot,
especially with the flicker filter.

I've found over the years, that quality wise, the
cards rated in the order of Matrox, ATI, with nVidia
in last.  In terms of overall usefulness though, they
rated nVidia, ATI, Matrox (again, my opinion).

It would be great if ATI would actually make something
nice of their driver like nVidia has done.  I'd rather
have an ATI card in my MythTV machine (but then, I
don't know if I'd be able to use OpenGL vertical
syncing, which helps out *a lot* on my 5200).

-- Joe

--- Jonathan Watmough <jonathan.watmough at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 4/29/05, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> I run TV out from an NVidia card to a regular TV and
> the desktop certainly 
> looks like crap, but the mythtv output should look
> OK. Is regular mythtv TV 
> viewable ?
> 
> What about playing DVDs ? If it looks like regular
> TV you are probably doing 
> ok.
> 
> I know you ATI owners hate this, but the
> nvidia-settings utility allows 
> about a 20-30% improvement in the appearance of TV
> out by tweaking a few 
> sliders. However, it would still suck to have a TV
> as a desktop.
> 
> As a sidenote, I thought that a ATI 9200 card with
> TV-out that my gf has on 
> a windows box actually looks better than the output
> from my NVidia card, but 
> the pain and failure to get it working with Linux
> was too much :-((((
> 
> Cheers
> Jonathan
> 
> --- 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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