On the subject of pc-to-tv adapters, I used one I got from maplin electronics here in the UK with freevo. It had two buttons on it, one was an overscan button and the other was a bugger up the picture button which made the screen go green?!?!
The overscan button would change through 3 modes, one of which would have the picture clipped off the screen a huge amount to the right but vertically it was perfect, The other would overscan by only a couple of pixels and the final mode would set a black border around the image. If your adapter is setting an 800x600 image off screen then maybe (and it probably sounds stupid to mention) there is a button somewhere which will change the signal. This button may be on the inside of the device even? You may also want to try using the video mode 704x512 (which worked on an old S3 card i once had, miro media view TV this was one helluva strange card!?!?) If all else fails you could try and build your own vga-composite adapter, I think there's a circuit on www.epanorama.net for the more adventurous out there, there is even a TV transmitter!! Low power transmits about 60 feet but worth it for freevo multiroom! Regards, Karl On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:33 -0300, Christian Lyra wrote: > Hi, > > Ok... I will post in the wiki too, but first here. Last week I built > another freevo box, and since this motherboard was short on PCI/AGP > slots, instead of use a video card with TV out, I bought a "pc-to-tv" > converter (pixelview game show). > I was used to use freevo on my desktop with a regular monitor, so it > was a surprise when I pluged this new machine to the Tv and found the > image being "cut" at top and bottom. After a lot of try and error with > Xfree86 confs, I thought about trying the freevo.conf! And it works... > hm... strange... I always thought that freevo on X11 would respect the > X11 configurations! > > What I did: > X11 configured to 800x600 - freevo.conf to 800x600 = image cut > (the > image is ok with a window manager) > X11 configured to 800x600 - freevo.conf to 640x480 = works!!! > X11 configured to 640x480 - freevo.conf to 800x600 = image cut > X11 configured to 640x480 - freevo.conf to 640x480 = works!!! > > I tried other values in freevo.conf like the ones from NTSC or PAL > (strange ones like 648x486, 720x480, etc... all of them shows some kind > of problem or distortion). > > My guess is that problem has something to do with SDL, but... who > knows? > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
