On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Mike wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am putting together a set top box running
> linux for movies / web usage and would
> like to hear what TV Out cards you have seen
> best results from under Linux.
>
> I have tried TV out using a low end Geforce 4
> with the nvidia binary drivers but there are some
> strange effects when watching movies through
> the TV Out (in scenes where there is a lot of
> action there is a split in the middle of the screen
> running horizontally, the upper half of the screen
> updates just before the bottom half and its very
> annoying!)
>
This sounds like you are using TwinView and therefore,
the video overlay can't be used, meaning the video is not
synced ot the retrace. If you are not using TwinView and
are only displaying on the TV, then the video overlay can
be used and it should be synced to the retrace.
Mark.
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