<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 10/05/2010, at 9:52 AM, Tortise wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Nick Rout" <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "MythTV in NZ" <<a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a>><br>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:27 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] DVB-T -> SD Analog TV<br><br><br>On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Graeme Woollett <<a href="mailto:g.woollett@irl.cri.nz">g.woollett@irl.cri.nz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'm setting up a mythbox for a friend that has an analog SD TV and a UHF<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">aerial - no SKY dish. Do nvidia cards output a SD representation of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">HD stream on their analog outputs ? Or am I destined to erect a sat dish?<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">The software (myth, mplayer etc) scale to the available output, so you<br></blockquote>can certainly do what you suggest.<br><br>I agree. The SD TV should display a picture at least as good as its tuned SD offering.<br><br>A little tangential however I have noted that playing HD over nvidia cards into "old" crt monitors e.g. 17" 1024x768 "max" <br>definition gives quite remarkably good results, far in excess of a 1024 x 786 pixellated performance. (Although probably not quite <br>true HD still very good)<br><br>My presumption here is that this is because the CRT's are analogue - and therefore the dots are in reality more of a continuous <br>stream rather than the more modern dot basis gives a much better quality of display. (The obvious parallel is the analogue disc <br>audio recordings vs digital)<br><br>It was interesting that old technology married to some newer technology is surprisingly good. Anyone else noted this? <br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I've done a lot of playback of HD streams over Composite or S-Video connections for customers and video quality is generally very good.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't set the video about 1024x768 and for some screens it looks better at 800x600.</div><div><br></div><div>You'll also need to play with the overscan options on the nvidia-settings tool as appropriate for your screen.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><div>
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