[mythtv-users] NVidia TV-out with 50 Hz?

[mmcconnell at uniserve.com]

Perhaps for your use, living without this feature is fine. However alot of my 
MytvTV usage includes, Games, Music and Weather. The flicker is particularly 
anonying for Music & Games. Ms. Pacman just ain't so fun with a flicker...

I was very happy with the quality using the Nvidia drivers under windows 
combined with Showshifter. The flicker reduction had no noticable negative 
effects in windows, only possitive effects of NO flicker.

Mike


Quoting steve at nexusuk.org:

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> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Michael McConnell wrote:
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> > Let us all write Nvidia and explain the that community demands Linux
> Driver
> > support for Flicker Reduction! Also The 5336 drivers produce the crappiest
> > TVOUT quality ever... The windows equivalent have excellent Flicker
> > Reduction options, and when using the same card under windows, I have no
> > flicker...
> 
> You really don't want flicker reduction.
> Flicker reduction works by (significantly) reducing the resolution of the 
> image.  Since the broadcast TV has already been flicker reduced at the TV 
> station, doing it again leads to, frankly, shite quality video.
> The correct way to do it is to antialias locally generated images (such as 
> the menus in the frontend).  This is not rocket science, but personally I 
> wouldn't spend the time implementing it because how long do you really 
> spend looking at the menus?  I dunno about you, but when I have the TV on 
> it spends 99% of the time playing videos and 1% of the time displaying the 
> menus.
> 
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>  - Steve                                             http://www.nexusuk.org/
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