NVidiaProprietaryDriver

Basically, everything you need to get this working you will find in their Readme file; read Appendix J which deals with TV-Out. Oh, and of course a videocard which is new enough to be supported by the driver!

Personal experiences with driver revision 1.0-8776:
- NVidia GeForce2 MX: works
- NVidia GeForce4 MX440: works
- NVidia FX5200: works
- NVidia Riva TNT2: DEFUNCT!!
- NVidia Riva TNT (also known as AGP-V3400): DEFUNCT!!

One common symptom is the following: the NVidia driver may (or may not) give one or more blue lines surrounding the actual TV or DVD playback. This is something which is mostly seen on widescreen TV displays. The following command solves the problem:

xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048

Add the command somewhere in the Xorg startup sequence (need more distribution-specific information about how to do this.)

For users experiencing black-and-white TV output: please verify if the TVStandard option is set to the one valid for your country. All NVidia cards I have seen default to the American TVStandard 'NTSC'. For a mythtv box in the Netherlands use the following option in the Device section in xorg.conf:

Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"

To get rid of that annoying NVidia logo at startup, also add:

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf.

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Resolutions supported by this driver depend on the card in use. But all cards I have seen have a TV-encoder onboard (the actual IC making the TV-Out connector(s) work) with only support for a few (lower) resolutions... all 4x3 aspect ratio :-( Here's the list:
- 1024x768
- 800x600
- 720x576 (actually a very very good resolution for (european) TVs using the PAL TV-standard!)
- 640x480