[mythtv-users] SDTV configuration suggestions

[Darryl Hirschler]

I am finally connected to a real TV, but I want to improve the quality
of the picture.  Currently it is not so good.  Here is how it is setup
currently:

 

Nvidia video card FX-5200

-          connected to PC monitor via VGA (1024x768)

-          connected to TV via S-video (640x480)

 

I am running Ubuntu 7.10, Myth 21 (FE/BE on same machine).

 

 

I had intended to run both monitors with only Myth going to the TV and
the PC monitor at 1024x768 or better for configuration and such.  I am
having trouble getting that to happen.  Although my videocard can easily
support 1280x1024, I cannot seem to get it to go higher than 1024x768.
And even then is has the scrolling desktop thing happening.  Ugh!  So if
I can just give up on that monitor and connect remotely for
configurations, I will be happy.  I can't have a PC monitor in my living
room anyway.  I am going to look into setting up VNC.  But it is a
curious problem.

 

That leads me to the problem with the TV picture.  Apparently Nvidia is
sending the video signal as progressive 30 frames per second, rather
than interlaced 60 fields per second (it's actually 29.97 fps and 59.94,
but it's easier to write 30 fps).  I do not know how to configure it to
send the signal properly.  And I do not want to deinterlace my picture.
My TV is a CRT, not an LCD.  

 

I've fooled with the video settings in Ubuntu as well as running the
nvidia-settings application.  And I've also gone into Myth and made
configuration settings there too.  And then I reboot and the settings
are either forgotten or completely *not* what I set.  Oftentimes, the
MythTV application does not start in the TV monitor even though I have
configured it to do so.

 

Anyways, can somebody please straighten me out?  I do not know which
place I need to make my video setting configurations nor which place to
make them permanent.  I do not know how to make interlaced video happen.
And I do not know how to configure two monitors.  But I think I can
figure out VNC.

 

 

Darryl

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