TV-out question

[NTB]

I wanted to try the TV-out on my computer today (through my Radeon 9800 Pro) to watch a video on a larger screen - so I ran an S-VHS cable to my 27" Television. It works, but I cannot see the entire screen at one time - if you move the mouse to either side, the top or the bottom, it scrolls. The entire desktop is there; I just can't see the whole thing at once. Suggestions?

cliffs:

1.Ran a cable to use TV out
2. want my TV and computer monitor to display the same thing
3. They do, but the image on the TV too big to show without scrolling

Nate

 

[n7]

You need to lower the resolution the card is set to display the TV on.

Maybe 640x480?

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: n7
You need to lower the resolution the card is set to display the TV on.

Maybe 640x480?

On the Displays tab (under advanced), if I click on the TV it says max res is 10x24x768 @ 60 Hz. If I go back to the basic display controls, that is how monitor 2 is set up - but that does not seem to be what it is displaying, and *changing* those settings, even to lower the resolution, seems to have no effect. The screen blinks, and everything bounces back to how it was set before. 1024x768 @ 60.

EDIT: I think I see part of the problem, but I'm still not sure what to do. If I click the "identify" button on the display settings tab, it identifies both monitors as #1. Shouldn't my LCD (main monitor) be #1, and the TV be #2?

If I set my LCD to 1024x768, the TV goes to the same res and everything shows...there has to be a way to seperate the two of them...

Nate

 

[n7]

I hate fiddling with dual displays on different hardware...it took me a hour to get my projector working properly with my monitor too...

Keep screwing around in there...you should have one display as primary, & one as secondary, not both #1.

Once you can get that sorted out, you should be able to set the rez lower on the TV, since there's no way it actually supports 1024x768.

Also, if you are trying to display your desktop on both, i wouldn't bother.
Try setting up the TV just as an extension of the desktop (you can drag your media player onto the TV screen to play stuff then).

 

[Auric]

1024x768 is the highest monitor resolution which may be cloned to analog TVO without requiring scrolling on the TV. However, to watch video on the TV the preferred method is to enable Theater Mode from the Overlay tab so that video may be played on the monitor in a window while full-screen on the TV. However, Catalyst 5.3 and later are broken such that during video playback, the TVO will be 720x480 rather than 640x480 even when the display device is configured for 4:3, thus distorting the aspect ratio.

 

[watdahel]

you have to lower monitor res to same as tv which is 800x600. thats the only way.

 

[Peter]

NTSC TV is 480 lines, so the appropriate resolution would be 640x480. Everything above that is going to be scaled and filtered back to 480 lines format before being output.

 

[watdahel]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh not according to nvidia

 

[PSUstoekl]

this stuff is pretty damn complicated...i hope that eventually the drivers can become a lot more "plug-and-play", especially in this case. i remember when i was fifteen installing a video card and wondering where the damn taskbar went for a good six days.