[mythtv-users] VGA -SCART and interlace (2x)

John reidjr at btconnect.com
Sat Sep 26 13:13:31 UTC 2009


Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> John wrote:
>>> YES !!! Thanks Paul, you put me on the right track. I understood the 
>>> need not to scale, but as I had all the zooming scaling and aspect 
>>> ratio turned off, and the Video res exactly matched the modeline, 
>>> everything should work (a clue -- no ).
>>>
>>> I was setting the aspect ratio in Xorg to ensure aspect Ratio 
>>> detection worked with
>>> Option         "DPI" "75x100"
>>>
>>> I changed that to
>>>
>>> Displaysize 260 145
>>>
>>> and now the Display rectangle matches the video rectangle. Not 
>>> completely sure I understand this, as the picturee on the TV look 
>>> the same, except as there is no scaling the "interlacing (x2)" works 
>>> as advertised. Excellent !
>>
>> Great. I can't say I really understand what was wrong with the previous
>> set up if the picture looked the same. I guess there must have been
>> just a slight scaling.  Good to hear it's working now, anyway.
>
> Just in case I ever have another go with my FX5200, what video
> drivers are you using?
>
> P.
>
>
I use mythbuntu 9.04 on my frontend, updated myth to trunk. I'm using 
the current default package drivers 180.44 (I think)


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