[mythtv-users] nvidia (or other) tv-out without deinterlacing?

[Tom Lichti]

Justin The Cynical wrote:
> Tom Lichti wrote:
>  > Justin The Cynical wrote:
>  >
>  >>*nod*
>  >>
>  >>I have one of those.  MSI NX6200AX is the least expensive one I found
>  >>(about 60 US dollars on newegg).  6200 GPU, component out, passive 
> cooling.
>  >>
>  >>So far, I've just turned on 480i (set is an older Toshiba HD 4:3
>  >>projection), and the picture looks a heck of a lot better than the
>  >>svideo out that I had with the MX440 card.
>  >>
>  >
>  > I have a similar card, but I can't get the component out to work. I get
>  > signal on the green and blue outputs, but no red. I did switch cables
>  > around, I don't think it's a cable problem. Care to share your setup?
>
> Funny you mention that, I ran into that problem last night.
>
> It turned out that I had specified the wrong settings in the config file.
>
> Here is the card section from my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Device"
>
>      Identifier     "Videocard0"
>      Driver         "nvidia"
>      VendorName     "Videocard vendor"
>      BoardName      "NVIDIA GeForce 6200"
>          Option  "NoLogo"                "1"
>          Option  "RenderAccel"           "0"
>          Option  "ConnectedMonitor"      "TV"
>          Option  "TVStandard"            "HD480i"
> EndSection
>
> Where I messed up, I had accidentally left a NTSC-M entry under 
> TVStandard (I was previously using a MX440 SVideo out).
>
> The image looks better (to me at least) than the svid output from the 
> previous card.
>   
Hrm. Mine looks very similar, except I have those in the Monitor 
section, and it does seem to pick them up, according to the XFree86 log. 
I may have to upgrade to xorg as opposed to XFree86. Argh. And I _just_ 
got XvMC working last night... :)

Thanks
Tom