[vdr] Re: AW: Re: mix Nexus TV out with GFX card TV out ?

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "juju" <jit@wanadoo.fr>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: AW: Re: mix Nexus TV out with GFX card TV out ?


> > > yes, in fact display is shrinked to feet the TV resolution 720*576
(pal)
>
> > And what for do you need more than 720*576 as your TV can't display
higher
> > resolutions physically?
>
> I do not need that :)
>
> The only thing I want, is to display DivX on my TV with a linux box in
> console mode. And as the cpu is only a PII 400 Mhz, I don't want it to
loose
> time to shrink movie to fit TV screen. So there're 2 solutions:
> - the first: use a matrox G400 dualHead to do TV output as mplayer and
linux
> support one of the great function of this card: it display on the TV the
> exact copy of the VGA display, doing all need resize in hardwar
> - the second: use a VGA-to-TV box to convert the VGA freqencies (31 Khz
and
> above) in TV viewable display.
>

You can limit resolution, colour and vertikal or horizontal frequencies by
the framebuffer-settings (even in the kernel at booting) in Linux.
So you don't have to waste money for a VGA2TV-box.

Rene



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