[mythtv-users] HELP about TV output

Ashu Desai ashu.desai at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 16:11:57 UTC 2005


Hi,
I did the overscan option. I went for TVOverScan upto 5.5, but nothing
happened!!!

Thanks in advance for your help.

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:29:30 -0500, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Ashu Desai wrote:
> 
> >Hello guys,
> >A newbie here. I wrote a couple of weeks back, and although a few guys
> >tried to help me, it didnt work. My appeal again:
> >
> >I am running pvr-250 (980) on a P3-650 Mhz-640 Mb RAM computer. When I
> >watch TV or the recording (since it's going to record the way it comes
> >on TV), I get a blue line on the left side the the upper side. Someone
> >suggested xattr thing with an "&" at the end; but that didn't work.
> >Someone also suggested modifying the /usr/bin/nVidia-Settings-1.0-6629
> >file but that didn't work either. I am at at brickwall now. Nothing
> >works and I hate watching my myth tv now with that bar....
> >
> >SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
> >
> >Any help is appreciated as always...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ash.
> >
> >
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> What nvidia chipset does you setup use?  If it's geforce 4 or greater,
> use the overscan option in the xorg.conf file.
> For example:
> 
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier  "Videocard0"
>  Driver      "nvidia"
>  VendorName  "Chaintech"
>  BoardName   "nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440"
>  Option      "RenderAccel" "1"
>  # TV Out Setup
>  Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
>  Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>  Option      "TVOverScan" "0.5"
>  EndSection
> 
> Increase the value by .05 until the lines disappears.
> 
> Calvin...
>


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