On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 20:08, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:28, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > 
> >>Yeah, the problem with LCDs over CRTs is that they run a native mode resolution 
> >>and in reality you have to interpolate a lesser resolution up to that or the LCD 
> >>will just not use all the screen.
> >>
> > 
> > ===
> > huh?
> > 
> > I can see there is a difference between lcd & crt but video output is
> > video output isn't it?
> > 
> > btw - apt-get install myth-suite is almost done
> 
> A CRT can run in lots of modes because it draws the screen with an electron 
> beam.  An LCD on the other hand has a fixed number of pixels, so if you tell it 
> to draw a 640x480 image and its native resolution is 1280x1024, then you end up 
> with an image that only fills about 1/4 of the screen.  The only way to get that 
> 640x480 to fill the 1280x1024 screen is to have the video card rescale 
> everything to 1280x1024.
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Rather than trot out a crt to test this theory - this actually solved my
issue - I guess I wasn't thinking yesterday.

All I had to do was to change XF86Config to 640x480 and ta da...

Now - mythtv - WOW!

given the fact that it was pretty easy to get it running (had to look at
documentation for a couple of things) - I told it that I had Cox digital
and it took a VERY long time to download 2 days worth of programming -
that was on a high speed link. I can't imagine how anyone with dial-up
is gonna make it happen (besides the length of time it would take to
download the myth-tv software and pre-requisite software.

Anyway, does anyone have master/slave setup working? Can 802.11b support
master/slave configuration? This is unbelievable.

However, I have solved my immediate need for tv on flat-panel
display...xawtv handles it fine. Myth TV is something I am going to
contemplate as my hardware is a bit marginal for this 500MHz AMD, 8GB
HD, 128MB RAM and ATI Mach 64 video card - all on the lower end for a
PVR.

Craig

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