[mythtvnz] Nvidia TV out overscan

[Steven Ellis]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I found some time to play with my setup this afternoon and discovered 
> something that may be useful for the list archives.
>
> I have a Nvidia FX5600 using S-Video out to a 32" widescreen CRT and up until 
> today had a little underscan in X.
>
> I'd briefly played with the TVOverScan option in xorg.conf when I set the box 
> up but couldn't get enough overscan to completely satisfy me.
>
> Today I was playing in the nvidia-settings utility and discovered that the 
> overscan slider there allows for more adjustmen than the xorg.conf setting.
>
> I now call `nvidia-config --load-config-only` in my xinitrc which sorts the 
> problem very nicely.
>   
Yes its great. The standard profile I load for myPVR runs nvidia-config
on startup and sets overscan for CRT screens.

> Hopefully this helps someone sometime. Now the only thing left for me to 
> investigate is the dreaded prebuffering pause issue, but that's not bad and 
> can wait a little longer.
>
> As an aside, I had the chance to setup a Myth box on a 50" HD plasma the other 
> day, it went quite well and looks very nice.
>   
How were you connecting, and what did you set the resolution to. 720p
seems ok, but 1080p/1080i needs a decent amount of RAM.

Steve


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