this sounds like a unterminated video problem. if you are handy with a soldering iron and made your own cable, put a 75 ohm resistor across the video signal pin (center of the RCA cable) to ground. Or modify a RCA cable to have a 75 ohm resistor across the center and outside.. this will either correct the problem or simply darken the video to the point that it's too dark.
I get that on my professional video equipment in my edit suite when I forget to install a terminator on my video wiring. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Victor Putz Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: ATI R128 Considered Harmful--recommendations? > how close is the freevo output to a cable tv or sattelite box output? VERY washed out. There is a noticeable difference when I tune my VCR or cable box to a channel (both of which look about the same) and switch to the Freevo. This is particularly noticeable in dark scenes (where the freevo's black seems quite grey but the scene has lower contrast) or brightly colored pictures (such as the "channel guide" or any animation). I can adjust the TV tuner overlay with some app or another (xvidtune, maybe--can't remember) but the problem is with the tv-out signal, I believe, since it looks fine on the monitor... although about the only time I notice it with non-video items is during any MAME gaming (vector games are INCREDIBLY hard to view on the TV, although that may just be a problem in general). > 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. OOOOO! Ok, that could be the answer I'm looking for. Of course, to a great extent, me worrying about such niceties as color balance and saturation is a bit silly since this freevo is running on a celeron 300 overclocked to 450 MHz connected to a circa 1992 Sanyo TV through a composite cable (not even S-vid!). When my recorded video is 320x240 with compression artifacts... well, saying "the black level just doesn't look right" just doesn't have much oomph. Many thanks for the help, folks. I think I will monitor ebay auctions for a cheap G400 just in case, but other than that will continue plugging along with the current setup. -->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
