[mythtv-users] HDTV on svideo with nvidia?

[Ian]

Joe Barnhart wrote:

>--- Ian <hindumagic at telus.net> wrote:
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>>To reply to my own post...
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>>Ian wrote:
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>>>Issues:
>>>1) Unfortunately, it seems that the card/driver
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>>wants to only alllow 
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>>>what it thinks are valid tv modes.  Now I don't
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>>know if this is a 
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>>>hardware limitation or a driver limitation.  I'm
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>>hoping that it is 
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>>>just the driver trying to protect the end-user and
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>>there is an 
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>>>(undocumented?) option to turn off this
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>>validation.  See below for my 
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>>>setup and log output.
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>>OOPS - I glossed over the driver option "TVStandard"
>>that can be set to 
>>HD modes - I'll try setting it to HD720p instead of
>>NTSC-M when I get 
>>home.  That is probably the culprit.
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>The answer is even simpler: The S-Video port can't be
>used to display anything above "standard" TV
>resolution, i.e. 480i.  To use any of the high-def
>modes, you must use VGA or component video outputs. 
>VGA to component adapter boxes exist to enable such
>connections for TVs which do not have VGA inputs.
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Thanks, I know I can go that way but I wanted to run with a dual head 
setup for a while. 

FYI, I have 1024x768 running out of the S-Video port and it looks 
great.  You can certainly break outside of the standard TV resolutions - 
just don't mess with the aspect ratio.

I tried setting the TVStandard option to HD720p or HD540p and it still 
complained that my modelines were "not a valid TV mode".  And it also 
didn't apply any of the default standard resolutions.  :(

Doesn't seem like anyone else here has had this problem, I got an 
account on the nvforum setup finally so I'll bring this there.

Ian.