[mythtv] Question about TV out.

[Jeremy Oddo]

> Awsome project! I noticed you only started 6 months ago so I almost
> didn't bother trying it out. I'm glad I did, great job so far.  This is
> the neatest thing since sliced bread.
>
Makes me wonder why it took so long for early people to figure out that
you could actually SLICE bread...but then again, I've always had sliced
bread.

> A little note on RH 8.0, to get XMLTV to compile and work I had to set
> my LANG.(export LANG='en_US'). That set me back a couple hours (getting
> the TV listings working anyway).
>
There's some great documentation being culled together.  Check it out here:
    http://www.mythtv.org/docs/

The whole RedHat "export LANG" thing is discussed in step 9:
    http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html


> My question, I have a Nvidia GeForce2 with svideo out. It works
> perfectly @ 640x480 but @ 800x600, the screen has black lines on the
> sides.  I found a cool utility NVTV that let's me correct the problem
> and the menu's of MythTV look perfect but when watching TV
>
Supposedly, there is a setting in the newest CVS version of MythTV that
helps "overscan" your monitor.  I believe it's in 'settings.txt' but I
haven't had a chance to dig into the latest CVS to check it out.

> however, the
> picture is all *jittery*
>
I had this problem when my hard drive didn't have DMA enabled.  Run hdparm
to check (ie: hdparm /dev/hda).  If it isn't enabled, you can enable it
with: hdparm -d1