On 01/26/2006 10:54 PM, Bill Baker wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:49 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > >> On 01/26/2006 10:29 PM, Bill Baker wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:04 -0800, G S wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I don't quite understand how you have your PVR-350 hooked up to your >>>> tv. I'm assuming you're using a video out from your video card to the >>>> TV screen. If this is so, I'm not sure exactly how you would set that >>>> up. My recommendation is to just run xorg off the PVR-350's S-video >>>> out. That's the way I have mine setup and there's instructions for it >>>> in the Fedora Mythtv guide. >>>> >>>> >>> So I shouldn't use the red, white and yellow cables and just use the >>> S-video adapter? Or should I use the S-video adapter in addition to the >>> red, white and yellow cables? >>> >>> >> Red and white cables are audio, yellow is composite video. Therefore, >> you probably want red, white, and S-Video. >> > So I want to unplug just the yellow cable and plug in an S-video cable? > Would that make a difference, since I can actually get a TV recording by > typing "cat /dev/video0 >/video/recording/temp_capture.mpg" and playing > it back with mplayer? What are the advantages of S-video compared to > composite? >
Basically, composite mixes 3 pieces of information in one signal. S-Video breaks the 3 pieces of info into 2 "components" Component video breaks the 3 pieces of info into 3 "components" So, you can think of each step up (each new component) providing more bandwidth, allowing for better picture quality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video for more details. Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
