On Wednesday 04 May 2005 17:08, Mark Smith wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Joseph A. Caputo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IIRC, S-Video is only capable of outputting a 4:3 picture. > > I'm not sure whether it's capable of signalling a 16:9 picture. There > certainly appears be no obvious way of doing that under software > control. > > However it most certainly is capable of outputting a 16:9 picture (or > any > other aspect ratio you like) - you just have to set your TV manually > to > display it as such.
You might be able to have X output a 16:9 display size to the video card, but the TV encoder chip is still going to convert the signal to standard NTSC (or PAL) resolution, which is 4:3. That's why I mentioned the TV's 'strectch' mode; you need to tell the television that you're displaying 16:9 content letterboxed inside a 4:3 signal so that it can do the work to rescale the picture appropriately. Some low-end widescreen TVs might not have such a capability, I suppose. To have your video card output a signal that the TV will automatically recognize as being 16:9, you would need to use a DVI or component video connection. Or am I getting something fundamentally wrong here? -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
