[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Nov 12 08:36:16 EST 2003


Jose,

Do you have problems with MythTV locking up using the TVOut with the
350? I know this is related to the decoder-alpha drivers, just wondering
if you have that problem. 

James

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:13, jose rubio wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:43, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> > Does the TV-out (the S-video output, as I understand) from the PVR-350
> > card (when using the hardware decoder in MythTV) just work?  Or does
> > it require lots of tweaking of the XF86Config file in order to get the
> > picture looking decent?  I'm just wondering since I'm considering
> > purchasing a PVR-350 and wanted to know how well the TV-out would
> > work.  I have a 4:3 NTSC 27" TV, and I really want MythTV's output to
> > make it over to the TV.  Background:  I previously spent about 3 hours
> > trying to get my Geforce2 GTS card to output a decent picture to my
> > TV, and finally gave up, since the TV picture was always poor (it
> > didn't fill the entire screen, or was curved near the corners of the
> > screen).
> > 
> > I understand there is some ongoing development to get the MythTV menus
> > to be displayed via the TV out, but I'm mainly concerned about the
> > MPEG->TV conversion.  Thanks for any advice,
> > -- 
> > Benjamin
> > ----
> > 
> The tv-out "just works"  You do need to set up you XF86Config file
> exactly like it says to do so in the instructions in the ivtv-fb.c
> file.  No tweaking.  I also have a Geforce2 card.  tv quality was ok
> after weeks of tweaking.  Then I got me my threefity.  Tv quality is
> better than my tivo.  And the "menus" look a lot better too!  you do
> have to tweak myth overscan settings to get the menus full screen though
> but that is easy. (10 minutes max).  Right now, the only issue is that
> mythdvd and mythvideo do not work well with the 350 but there's a lot of
> smart people working on it right now so it will be fine soon.
> In short, tv quality cannot be better than what you get out of the 350
> (IMHO) at least without hdtv.
> 
> 
> 
> -jose-
> 
> 
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