Note: those "calibration" discs are only to set your TV to the DVD's output. your dvd player is very likely not putting out a perfect NTSC/PAL signal and can only be measured with a video waveform monitor.
I mention this as I have 2 DVD players, one of which is darker than the other, and both are darker than the HD cableTV box. how close is the freevo output to a cable tv or sattelite box output? finally, you can avoid all of that by simply buying a cheap TBC (time base corrector) to adjust your frevo's output to match that of your other components. I used a cheap no brand one sold to dub video tapes that had 2 knobs to adjust brightness and hue to decrease the video out of the cable box. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Victor Putz Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] ATI R128 Considered Harmful--recommendations? Hmm, sounds like a fairly strong recommendation for the G400, even without the cable (I built my own LIRC reciever, so I don't mind having to make the cable if I need). One thing I've heard is that the TV-out-enabled second display on the G400 is "unaccelerated", whatever that means (not sure if it meant "no overlay support", "no xv support", what). I'm using the freevo for recording, playback, and Mame under X--is the G400 unimpaired with all these? Also--and this is fairly important to me--is the TV-out on the G400 adjustable in terms of saturation/color balance/etc? I'm unable to adjust the R128 (as far as I can tell) and it's far too bright (the TV is set correctly according to my Avia calibration DVD, but the TV-out from the R128 has no idea what "black" is). Thanks; I appreciate the help. All things considered, setting up the video for the Freevo is fairly confusing (X11? dxr3? Framebuffer?) even without the driver issues. I *did* get the R128 working, by the way (a debian update silently wrote over my compiled driver), but if the G400 is well-supported, I'll watch auctions for it. Thanks again-->VPutz ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
