[mythtv-users] ?'s on GF4 Video Card (tv out) + Other assortiedthoughts

[David Madsen]

I've got a Geforce 440 MX running in mine without any problems.  The TV out
works great.  mine is a PNY branded one..

Dave Madsen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Choukalos" <choukalos at yahoo.com>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] ?'s on GF4 Video Card (tv out) + Other
assortiedthoughts


> All,
>
> Okay, I've got my RH8.0 media server up and running.
> I've got the TV out signal hooked to an RF modulator,
> through a low pass signal piped into my entire home
> cable network.  I'm sitting on the couch mucking
> around with the ATI RF remote... and suddenly a couple
> serious questions poped into my head.  Please forgive
> me for not really paying too much attention to these
> before but.
>
> 1.  On the ATI remote, how the 'heck' do you get it to
> Map one of the special buttons to the "Escape" key!
> I've insmod ati_remote, and I hacked up the
> avview.modfile and put it in .xmodparc and it seems to
> work.  But I can't get the Escape or Space key to
> work?  Any ideas/Suggestions?  Am I missing a module I
> need to add?  FYI, I didn't add usbmouse because I'm
> not interested in using the mouse feature... just want
> a simple RF remote
>
> 2.  The TV out quality Blows major chunks.  I mean its
> utterly horriable.  Now, I tried direct from TV on
> card to S-Video on a TV and its the same.  When I tune
> my beatup VCR hooked to my Sony TV... the Macrovision
> starts its fight... but I get a gorgeously clean B/W
> picture on the TV.  So, my big question is WTF!  How
> do I get a nice clean, crisp picture on my TV's?
> Right now, I have a green bar on the left side of the
> tube, I get an annoying flickering scan line that
> sweeps down, and the picture is lots of over saturated
> color and really really blurry.  Ie... .any writting
> on the screen looks terrible (blurred and muddied).
> Is this what everyone's seeing, or has anyone managed
> to get a GF4 card to produce a really nice picture?
> Do I have to play with Modeline's again?  or is there
> some trick?  Any suggestions (and yes the nvtv program
> doesn't seem to work with my card... tried it
> already).
>
> 3.  I've noticed that I'm having a lot of problems
> with old recordings (mythtv) whenever I switch
> versions/etc.  Between
>     V.4 and V.8(CVS) what's changed?  When I try to
> play the old recordings mythtv pukes out.  Do I just
> need to
>     renecode the old recordings to divx or whatever
> with the patched mplayer and clean up the database to
> be done
>     with it.  Or is the patch only going to work on
> the older recordings?  Also, anyone have a link to the
> mplayer source
>     that works with the patch 0.90rc1?  I can't find
> it any more... the lowest I've found is rc2.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
>
> P.S.:  Sorry Issac, I sent this from the wrong email
> account... Feel free to disregard it.
>
> P.S.2:  How's got a good TV out quality and what setup
> are they using?  I mean, I want something that's going
> to be on par with the new Replay TV (5000's) they look
> pretty spiffy in 480p on a nice HDTV set.
>
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