Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-21 Thread Jaap Struyk
Sorry to bother but isn't it possible that the quality in 1024 isn't bether than 800 or 640 but that 800 and 640 are yust worse? That sounds silly but I know that some old S3 cards on vga at low resolution have a blury image and not at high resolution so the above could related due to the used

[Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
For those who aren't aware and are using nvidia cards with TV-output the new nvidia drivers see one incredible improvement (as I've just discovered). The drivers are now capable of outputting a 1024x768 signal on TV, this has been a limitation of the drivers for some time and now we can enjoy

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Bastian Farkas
how can a standard TV (CRT) display a resolution as high as 1024x768? i always thought 800x600 was the hardware limit. oh, and is the improvement also available for the legacy drivers? On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 00:43 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: For those who aren't aware and are using nvidia cards

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 02:47 +0200, Bastian Farkas wrote: how can a standard TV (CRT) display a resolution as high as 1024x768? i always thought 800x600 was the hardware limit. oh, and is the improvement also available for the legacy drivers? Well the TV itself isn't _really_ capable of it, but

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 00:43 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: The drivers are now capable of outputting a 1024x768 signal on TV, this has been a limitation of the drivers for some time and now we can enjoy high resolution freevo! I don't grok how this can possibly provide superior output to running

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 01:53 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: box. My TV has 712 lines (if i remember right which i probably don't ;) as its SVHS, I could be wrong but it looks wicked eitherway! 712 lines? That doesn't sound right. :) If you've a hdtv then it's either 720 or 1080 lines, I suppose.

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
I don't grok how this can possibly provide superior output to running the card at the TV's native vertical resolution and using software scaling (in mplayer, say). Try it! There is a noticeable difference . It will support xine, which has tvtime's deinterlacers (including GreedyH and

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Ryan Roth
I have been doing this for a couple years with the nVidia drivers. This is not a new feature. Thats why I was complaining that the CVS version was stuck at 800x600 forever. People are correct that the TVs physical limit is less than this, but the difference between 800x600 and 1024x768 is

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 18:24 -0700, Ryan Roth wrote: I have been doing this for a couple years with the nVidia drivers. This is not a new feature. Thats why I was complaining that the CVS version was stuck at 800x600 forever. People are correct that the TVs physical limit is less than

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Ryan Roth
The proof is in the pudding, and it is without a doubt better looking, give it a try if you can, you will see a difference. I rip all my DVDs at their native resolution and the difference is enough that I have gone out of my way to make sure that all my freevo boxes run no less then 1024x768.

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
In fact if anyone claims otherwise I'll simply refuse to believe it until I get a good explanation. :) You must have faith my child. ;) It _IS_ better quality, possibly because nvidia have done some good work on stabilising the video at that resolution, now I'm not saying I can read ordinary

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 18:46 -0700, Ryan Roth wrote: The proof is in the pudding, and it is without a doubt better looking, give it a try if you can, you will see a difference. Ok, I gave it a try, and I see no improvement with 'mplayer dvd:// -fs' at 1024x768 over 'mplayer dvd:// -vf

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
It simply makes sense that I wouldn't see an improvement. The limitation here is my television. It only has about 480 lines of visible resolution. Maybe your TV/video card is really crappy? I've got a reasonably new phillips and there is a noticeable difference for me. BTW, after checking

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Ryan Roth
I have a 36 Sony Wega, mabey he has a 13 TV :) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:28 -0700, Ryan Roth wrote: I have a 36 Sony Wega, mabey he has a 13 TV :) I have a 52 RCA rear projection. Yes, I'm compensating. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

Re: [Freevo-users] nvidia driver improvements!

2006-05-20 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:28 -0700, Ryan Roth wrote: I have a 36 Sony Wega, mabey he has a 13 TV :) Comeon tack, own up are you using a 3.5 casio handheld TV with an RF modulator to convert the composite signal? K, /me thinks that Tacks TV is gonna keep getting smaller until it is ludicrously