[mythtv-users] TV out and capture card tuning.

[Thomas Hudak]

If you can manage, run 2 X sessions - 1 for X on a monitor, and 1 via
fb{0|1} on :1, then run myth via the tv-out on the 350 "--display
127.0.0.1:1". Granted you will be lacking hardware decoding playing out
DVD's, etc it's *the best* output to your TV period.

Otherwise investigate overscan options (mine is set to .65), when I
added this option and tweaked the settings a bit I got the nvidia tv-out
from a smallish bordered window on my TV to glorious edge-to-edge
full-screen. I am however disappointed by the quality from the tv-out on
the nvidia, the tv-out on the 350 is astonishingly high quality to the
point of me deciding to keep my Trinitron TV instead of buying a new one
in hopes of increasing quality - it just looks great.

Good luck, hopefully future revs of the ivtv stuff will support better
software decoding and playback through the x50's svideo out.

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:40, Len Tucker wrote:
> I am using a gf4 440mx with svideo out (using current nvidia driver). Everything works well. Is there anyway to extended the screen usage? It seems that DVDs and MythTV leave a large black border.
> 
> I am using an ATI TV wonder VE card with DirecTV capture on composite input. I have turned quality all the way up (255) and resolution to 512 x 480. The picture quality is not quite  
> as good as I would like. 
> Would upgrading to a pvr 250 or 350 and captureing from svideo in provide a better quality image?
> 
> thanks in advace,
> 
> Len Tucker