Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-07 Thread Daniele Parravicini
Great - thanks !!! It looks good, in the sense that I cannot hear it but only see it through VNC (I am currently abroad) and I see a nice volume icon in the lefthand upper corner now :) Great community - good feedback 2005/10/6, Evan Hisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > daniele- > To solve your mi

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-05 Thread Evan Hisey
daniele- To solve your mixxer problem disable the stander mixer plugin and use the oss mixer plugin. plugin.remove('mixer') plugin.activate('ossmixer') That should get sound working again. To speed up teh remote you might try nicing the lircd. Evan On 10/3/05, Daniele Parravicini <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
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 o

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters, ATI TV-Out

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:25 +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote: > El Lunes, 3 de Octubre de 2005 23:16, Karl Lattimer escribió: > > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php > > > > You've gotta check it out of CVS, build the XF source tree, then build > > the gatos driver while pointing to the XF bu

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters, ATI TV-Out

2005-10-03 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 3 de Octubre de 2005 23:16, Karl Lattimer escribió: > http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php > > You've gotta check it out of CVS, build the XF source tree, then build > the gatos driver while pointing to the XF build folder, this works very > well, it worked for me for months until

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I have a NVIDIA card. The nice thing is that you can use it as > xinerama/dual head. But I heard that the Tv-out of ATI is far better. LIES, HISS. NVIDIA is far superior! With ati-tvout turn the kettle on and you get some distortion, turn the microwave on and the screen goes craz

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters, ATI TV-Out

2005-10-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
> I have the same problem that you have... I have struggled like hell to > have my ATI 9000 Radeon http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php You've gotta check it out of CVS, build the XF source tree, then build the gatos driver while pointing to the XF build folder, this works very well, it

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi > I have the same problem that you have... I have struggled like hell > to have my ATI 9000 Radeon to work with Tv-Out and XV - I managed > that with kernel 2.4.x to have 800x600 on both monitor and TV but > since 2.6.x I can only reach weird combinations of 640x480 and > 800x600 ... I start fr

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Daniele Parravicini
-- sorry for the long message -- I have the same problem that you have... I have struggled like hell to have my ATI 9000 Radeon to work with Tv-Out and XV - I managed that with kernel 2.4.x to have 800x600 on both monitor and TV but since 2.6.x I can only reach weird combinations of 640x480 and 80

[Freevo-users] freevo and pc-to-tv converters

2005-10-03 Thread Christian Lyra
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 desk