Tostman wrote in reply to me:
Paul(or anyone),
Did you ever find whether the on-board video/TV-out of your MS-6215
(Chrontel CH-7007A video encoder, Intel 82801BA graphics, Intel 815
chipset), worked ok with MythTv ?
I have the i865G chipset on my myth box with the Chrontel chip described
above. My board has vga, RCA, s-video, and dvi options for video out. In
linux, I have only been able to get the vga (obviously) and RCA output to
work. The cavet with the RCA out is that the vga connector can't be plugged
in at boot (or after) if you want the TV out.
I have been unable to verfiy whether the dvi plug works the same way as the
RCA (no way to test), but the s-video seems to be worthless in linux.
It should be noted that the optical out works nicely if that is included in
your chipset.
-- Travis
Thanks, Travis. My motherboard only supports RCA and S-video with only the
former an option for me. Not having the latest distribution of linux or
mythtv around or spare hardware, I booted up the system with the hard disk
from my regular PC. The default video output (displayed for fiddling the
bios) and that displayed under Windows 95 was rather disappointing. The
mother board can be jumpered to support either PAL or NTSC so I tried both
with a dual system TV. The PAL output wasn't even synchronised properly with
my monitor. Lest you say its my monitor, well the monitor is quite happy to
display PAL the rest of the time. NTSC was a lot better, but the picture was
being displayed only took up the centre of the monitor with quite a lot of
area left out. I was expecting the encoder have some reasonable defaults--
is there any reason to expect that myth can do better here or upgrading the
mb firmware will make a difference.
Another potential problem is whether the motherboard will be happy with a
large hard disk.
I tried with a small 20GB disk and Win2K had problem finding itself -
although Win95 further down the disk was happy enough. I thought you could
move disks between systems - is that not always the case?
BTW, does your chipset include the 82815 ? I have no idea whether this would
be an issue with the graphic chip or encoder.
Thanks,
Andrew
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