Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-23 Thread Dan Christian
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 02:55 pm, Steve Adeff wrote: > > > Have you fed a 1080i signal to your TV with another device? > > > > No, I don't. That would be very usefull, but all the possible options > > are $300+. I don't feel like throwing more money at the problem right > > now. > true, I j

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:02, Dan Christian wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 07:59 pm, you wrote: > > if its truely using an HDTV output chip then the modeline won't matter, > > just the TVOut settings for the nvidia driver. > > That's what I thought, but it acted just the same. Maybe m

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-22 Thread Dan Christian
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 07:59 pm, you wrote: > if its truely using an HDTV output chip then the modeline won't matter, > just the TVOut settings for the nvidia driver. That's what I thought, but it acted just the same. Maybe my card doesn't really do the right thing. > > Have you fed a 1080

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 22:41, Dan Christian wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 09:57 am, Steve Adeff wrote: > > So I could > > A) buy a video card with an HDTV output chip and use that > > I've got a NVIDIA 6600GT which has HDTV output support, and I still can't > get a usable 1080i signal.

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-22 Thread Dan Christian
On Thursday 17 November 2005 09:57 am, Steve Adeff wrote: > So I could > A) buy a video card with an HDTV output chip and use that I've got a NVIDIA 6600GT which has HDTV output support, and I still can't get a usable 1080i signal. It will put out 1080i, but the picture jitters up/down (like th

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:30, Michael T. Dean wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Yes, always when possible. ie. my HDTV converts everything to 1080i but I can't find a DVI 1080i modeline that will work with my geforce so I'm forced to output at 720p, I might eventually

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:30, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > >Yes, always when possible. ie. my HDTV converts everything to 1080i but I > >can't find a DVI 1080i modeline that will work with my geforce so I'm > > forced to output at 720p, I might eventually get a newer geforce

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steve Adeff wrote: Yes, always when possible. ie. my HDTV converts everything to 1080i but I can't find a DVI 1080i modeline that will work with my geforce so I'm forced to output at 720p, I might eventually get a newer geforce with an HDTV output chip and use that, I'll prbly end up buying a

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:40, Eric Ladner wrote: > On 11/17/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From what I can tell theres no way to have Myth output vary depending on > > the source resolution. If it did/does, and your HDTV supports 480p native > > (ie doesn't scale it to another

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Eric Ladner
On 11/17/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell theres no way to have Myth output vary depending on the > source resolution. If it did/does, and your HDTV supports 480p native (ie > doesn't scale it to another resolution) then it would be best to output SD at > 480p and

Re: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 10 November 2005 15:19, mrwester wrote: > Hi- > > I'm contemplating adding a HDTV tuner and have a few quick questions, but > 1st, some brief background. Current myth setup is FC4 and 18.1 on AMD 2900, > 512mb ram, 500gb of hard disks, 1xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500, chaintech fx5200, > Olevia 30

[mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

2005-11-10 Thread mrwester
Hi- I'm contemplating adding a HDTV tuner and have a few quick questions, but 1st, some brief background.  Current myth setup is FC4 and 18.1 on AMD 2900, 512mb ram, 500gb of hard disks, 1xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500, chaintech fx5200, Olevia 30" LCD TV that has DVI, VGA, S-video in as well as HDTV ready (