[mythtv-users] Pal/NTSC switching ?

[John]

John wrote:
> I am in a PAL country (UK) and I output to my CRT TV over S-Video. All 
> of my recorded content is PAL, and most of my videos. However I have 
> some Videos that are NTSC, or at least at NTSC refresh rates. Playing 
> those at 50Hz works, but the frame juddering is annoying.
>
> I can manually change xorg .conf from
>
> Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"  to
> Option "TVStandard" "PAL", and back restarting gdm every time, but 
> thats not very neat.
>
> Is there any way to switch from 50/60Hz TVstandards on the fly ?
>
> Serious googling has leads to lots of hits for ati drivers that suggest :
>
> xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard ntsc (or pal)
> will do the job on a radeon card, but nothing for nvidia.
>
> ??
>
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Doh !

SHould have said the Video card is an Nvidia 6200 AGP, with s-video 
output. I usually run the nvidia  binary drivers. When I try the xrandr 
command I get errors with both nv and nvidia drivers.


John