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Not sure what exactly your problem is, but why not try it at 640x480? I
have the same card, and it had "bars" of black on either side when I tried
to run it in 8x6..

tarek : )

> Hi All,
>
> This may sound off topic, buy it is related.
>
> I have MythTV running for a while and I like it a lot. The only reason why I am
> not using it yet exclusively is that my TV out is funky. What it looks like is
> that it does not align with TV completely, so picture is not as good as it
> could be and aspect ratio is completely wrong. If I try to fix aspect ratio
> with nvtv, I lose picture. I tried everything, and am getting close to buying
> new graphics card.
>
> The card I have now is NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 with Brooktree 869. I am trying
> to use NTSC on 800x600.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Andy
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I have the same card, I've tried to switch from 640x480 to 800x600 multiple times and had the same problems you describe. I finally just gave up and stayed at 640x480. If you look at the picture in both modes, there really isn't a significant quality difference anyway. Plus, you get an added bonus that you can actually read the icons and default fonts in the window manager clearly :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Lego Andy [mailto:me@andy.cx]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:26 PM
To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] Problems with NVidia TV-OUT


Hi All,

This may sound off topic, buy it is related.

I have MythTV running for a while and I like it a lot. The only reason why I am
not using it yet exclusively is that my TV out is funky. What it looks like is
that it does not align with TV completely, so picture is not as good as it
could be and aspect ratio is completely wrong. If I try to fix aspect ratio
with nvtv, I lose picture. I tried everything, and am getting close to buying
new graphics card.

The card I have now is NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 with Brooktree 869. I am trying
to use NTSC on 800x600.

Any ideas?

Andy
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At 06:26 PM 5/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>I have MythTV running for a while and I like it a lot. The only reason why
>I am
>not using it yet exclusively is that my TV out is funky. What it looks like is
>that it does not align with TV completely, so picture is not as good as it
>could be and aspect ratio is completely wrong. If I try to fix aspect ratio
>with nvtv, I lose picture. I tried everything, and am getting close to buying
>new graphics card.
>
>The card I have now is NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 with Brooktree 869. I am trying
>to use NTSC on 800x600.

Hi Andy,

I have an MSI GeForce2 MX 400 64MB with TV out. I just got TV out working
this afternoon actually. I used the latest NVIDIA driver and the
instructions from the readme, and then took my box in to the living room
and booted it. The plain text at boot was shockingly crisp and after I
fixed a typo in my X config the X window came up in brilliant colour. The
only problem I had with it was that it doesn't quite fill my screen, I have
about 4% of screen on either side as black bars. I believe fixing this is
done with what others have referred to here as overscan/underscan but I
haven't figured that out yet. Othat than the extra space on the sides, my
aspect ratio etc is perfect and the videos play back nicely.

I tried NVTV and found the NVIDIA stock driver looked better on my TV,
although NVTV has tons of nice settings you can play with.

Hopefully someone here can help me adjust things to remove the black
bars. The only other issue I have is that I haven't figured out how to
make the system go 100% borderless full screen yet - my X "task bard" stays
on top at the bottom of the screen (I'm running RH9 stock Gnome desktop)
and also my window title bar for MPlayer doesn't disappear yet. But I'm
confident someone here can steer me in the right direction. :)

-Jeff

This thought is not specific to your card. I often (for the last couple of
years) have trouble with 800x600 X displays not fitting the screen (in my
case, a regular 14", 15", or 17" VGA display) properly. These same cards
and X servers always work well at either 640x480 and 1024-768.

So see if you do any better with 640x480 ... normal TVs can't take
advantage of 800x600 anyway.

Here today I tested both a Geforce2 (GTS 64 MB DDR 4x AGP) and a GeForce4
440-SE, using the nVidia driver for both tests, and both worked very nicely
with X and with Myth at 640x480. xv-based TV worked fine through Myth and
through xine.

At 06:26 PM 5/16/2003 -0400, Lego Andy wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>This may sound off topic, buy it is related.
>
>I have MythTV running for a while and I like it a lot. The only reason why
>I am
>not using it yet exclusively is that my TV out is funky. What it looks like is
>that it does not align with TV completely, so picture is not as good as it
>could be and aspect ratio is completely wrong. If I try to fix aspect ratio
>with nvtv, I lose picture. I tried everything, and am getting close to buying
>new graphics card.
>
>The card I have now is NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 with Brooktree 869. I am trying
>to use NTSC on 800x600.