[mythtv-users] TV Output

jani jani.talikka at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 09:04:30 EST 2005


Thanks for that,... we have an oddball channel here too which
broadcasts in 704x576.  I guess my next task (after i wire up the
audio to the scart plug) is to tweak the tv settings to get the
picture to not overscan too much, and to set up mythtv so that the OSD
fonts don't look blocky.

jani


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:55:44 +0000, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <4b9f918c0501110443b5773b9 at mail.gmail.com>
>         jani.talikka at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Motivated by this post I went and bought a VGA extension cord and a
> > SCART plug, soldered up the little sync circuit, banged it all
> > together and it works!  wow... the picture is a lot nicer than the
> > SVIDEO tv-out i had been using from my GF FX5200.
> >
> > At the moment I only managed to get one resolution from the examples
> > working: 720x575i, and the picture looks too large.  Is anyone willing
> > to share the modeline they're using?
> 
> These are the two that I'm using at the moment:
> 
>   ModeLine "704x576pali" 13.6 704 728 792 872 576 581 586 625 -hsync -vsync interlace
>   ModeLine "720x576pali" 13.9 720 744 808 888 576 581 586 625 -hsync -vsync interlace
> 
> I have the 704x576 mode set up as an override for video of that size
> as some UK DVB broadcasts are 704x576 but most are 720x576.
> 
> This is with a GeForce4 MX 4000 card.
> 
> Tom
> 
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