[mythtvnz] display on analog widescreen tvs

[Steve Holdoway]

Thanks for that. I'll try this evening. I was so annoyed that I managed to damage the cat5 cable that I ran from one end of the house to the other to put this box by the TV last night...

Grr.

Steve
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:57:29 +1300
Guy Lowe <mythtvnz at gunk.gen.nz> wrote:

> Oh, and:
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	(...)
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           24
>                 Modes           "720x576"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Using anything but the native 720x576 with a non-HD CRT looks a lot
> worse and requires deinterlacing.
> 
> Guy
> 
> Guy Lowe wrote:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size
> > 
> > It's been a while since I set mine up, but from memory, the important
> > parts of xorg.conf are:
> > 
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier      "6600GT"
> >         Driver          "nvidia"
> > 	#PAL mode so that we don't need to do deinterlacing in myth
> >         Option      "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
> >         Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
> >         Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Section "Monitor"
> > 	(...)
> > 	DisplaySize 260 146 #Correct for 720x576 16:9
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Also, watch out for -dpi 100 being passed to X in one of the launch scripts.
> > 
> > Guy
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >> I've got to the stage where I've plugged the display into the TV, which is an old Loewe Aconda 100Hz analog widescreen tv. I'm connecting via s-video from an nvidia 7300. The card identifies the screen as 1024x768. Is this the best resoultion to choose? Picture quality is pretty awful. Also do I just use the overscan to convert from what looks like a 4:3 display to 16:9???
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> > 
> > 
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