[mythtv-users] RE: nvidia new drivers hdtv/interlacing, any benefit for us non HDTV people?

[Greg Estabrooks]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:09:11AM +0100, David wrote:
> Thomas B?rkel wrote:
> 
> >HI!
> >
> >David wrote:
> >
> >>>I changed it now from 800x600 non-interlaced to 720x576 interlaced. 
> >>>It's a little bit sharper now, I guess, but that was to be suspected 
> >>>because of no scaling anymore. I see now some interlace effects more 
> >>>clear also. So I am using kerneldeint now.
> >>>
> >>>But also background motion is more smooth now. I don't know why, but 
> >>>this really helped for that.
> >>
> >>
> >>How did you do that?
> >>as I posted a while ago, when I try this I get:
> >>  (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "720x576" (not a valid TV mode)
> >
> >
> >I think, I first has this error, too (I first tried 720x576 
> >non-interlaced). Then I changed the monitor HorizSync restriction and 
> >then both worked (non-interlaced and interlaced).
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Thanks Thomas - much appreciated - but I still get:
>  (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "720x576x50i" (not a valid TV mode)

 Are you both using 6106? I was using 720x480 under 4363 and after
swapping to 6106 It's no longer allowed. It looks like they've added artificial
restrictions. Doing a strings on the nvidia_drv.o shows this:]

Supported TV modes:
  TV Standard: %s: %dx%d
  640x480
  800x600
  1024x768