Mailing List Archive: Question about TV out.

Question about TV out.

Nov 29, 2002, 1:51 PM

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Awsome project! I noticed you only started 6 months ago so I almost
didn't bother trying it out. I'm glad I did, great job so far. This is
the neatest thing since sliced bread.

A little note on RH 8.0, to get XMLTV to compile and work I had to set
my LANG.(export LANG='en_US'). That set me back a couple hours (getting
the TV listings working anyway).

My question, I have a Nvidia GeForce2 with svideo out. It works
perfectly @ 640x480 but @ 800x600, the screen has black lines on the
sides. I found a cool utility NVTV that let's me correct the problem
and the menu's of MythTV look perfect but when watching TV however, the
picture is all *jittery* and there is a thick line (looks like an
overlap of some kind) on the left side of the screen.

Is there anyway to correct this in the settings?
Or... is there any way to get the menu's to resize to 640x480?

Thanks,

Tony

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Tony Pace <tony@pcom.dhs.org>

Re: Question about TV out. [ In reply to ]

joddo at apixels

Nov 29, 2002, 2:08 PM

Post #2 of 5 (1200 views)

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> Awsome project! I noticed you only started 6 months ago so I almost
> didn't bother trying it out. I'm glad I did, great job so far. This is
> the neatest thing since sliced bread.
>
Makes me wonder why it took so long for early people to figure out that
you could actually SLICE bread...but then again, I've always had sliced
bread.

> A little note on RH 8.0, to get XMLTV to compile and work I had to set
> my LANG.(export LANG='en_US'). That set me back a couple hours (getting
> the TV listings working anyway).
>
There's some great documentation being culled together. Check it out here:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/

The whole RedHat "export LANG" thing is discussed in step 9:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html

> My question, I have a Nvidia GeForce2 with svideo out. It works
> perfectly @ 640x480 but @ 800x600, the screen has black lines on the
> sides. I found a cool utility NVTV that let's me correct the problem
> and the menu's of MythTV look perfect but when watching TV
>
Supposedly, there is a setting in the newest CVS version of MythTV that
helps "overscan" your monitor. I believe it's in 'settings.txt' but I
haven't had a chance to dig into the latest CVS to check it out.

> however, the
> picture is all *jittery*
>
I had this problem when my hard drive didn't have DMA enabled. Run hdparm
to check (ie: hdparm /dev/hda). If it isn't enabled, you can enable it
with: hdparm -d1

Re: Question about TV out. [ In reply to ]

tony at pcom

Nov 29, 2002, 2:42 PM

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On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:08, Jeremy Oddo wrote:
> > Awsome project! I noticed you only started 6 months ago so I almost
> > didn't bother trying it out. I'm glad I did, great job so far. This is
> > the neatest thing since sliced bread.
> >
> Makes me wonder why it took so long for early people to figure out that
> you could actually SLICE bread...but then again, I've always had sliced
> bread.
>
> > A little note on RH 8.0, to get XMLTV to compile and work I had to set
> > my LANG.(export LANG='en_US'). That set me back a couple hours (getting
> > the TV listings working anyway).
> >
> There's some great documentation being culled together. Check it out here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/
>
> The whole RedHat "export LANG" thing is discussed in step 9:
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html

Doh! That should be moved to section 5.3 Building XMLTV. It will not
build without setting LANG. I should have read *all* the docs, would
have saved me some time.

>
>
> > My question, I have a Nvidia GeForce2 with svideo out. It works
> > perfectly @ 640x480 but @ 800x600, the screen has black lines on the
> > sides. I found a cool utility NVTV that let's me correct the problem
> > and the menu's of MythTV look perfect but when watching TV
> >
> Supposedly, there is a setting in the newest CVS version of MythTV that
> helps "overscan" your monitor. I believe it's in 'settings.txt' but I
> haven't had a chance to dig into the latest CVS to check it out.

Sorry, my bad, I should have stated on the TV it does this, not on the
PC. The frontend looks purdy on TV, but when you start watching live TV
the picture is jittery.

>
> > however, the
> > picture is all *jittery*
> >
> I had this problem when my hard drive didn't have DMA enabled. Run hdparm
> to check (ie: hdparm /dev/hda). If it isn't enabled, you can enable it
> with: hdparm -d1
>

The hd light hardly ever goes on, everything is fine on the PC. It
looks like MythTV switches video modes when playing live TV or
something.

Thanks,

Tony

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Tony Pace <tony@pcom.dhs.org>

Re: Question about TV out. [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Nov 29, 2002, 5:27 PM

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On Friday 29 November 2002 03:51 pm, Tony Pace wrote:
> Is there anyway to correct this in the settings?
> Or... is there any way to get the menu's to resize to 640x480?

theme.txt, the GuiHeight and GuiWidth settings.

Isaac

Re: Question about TV out. [ In reply to ]

tony at pcom

Nov 29, 2002, 6:31 PM

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On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 16:27, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 29 November 2002 03:51 pm, Tony Pace wrote:
> > Is there anyway to correct this in the settings?
> > Or... is there any way to get the menu's to resize to 640x480?
>
> theme.txt, the GuiHeight and GuiWidth settings.

Yay!... Thank you very much... guess I sould have looked around more.

I'm a mega happy camper.

Thanks

Tony

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Tony Pace <tony@pcom.dhs.org>