TV Out on GF3 (Elsa920)

[boead]

Never had much need for TV out and never paid much attention to it till I wanted to record a video to VHS.

I have an Elsa920 on WinXP. Oh and I learned something. 640 X 480 is not available for the GF3? I would never have tried it but for TV Out 640 X 480 is sometimes better, so I've read. 800 X 600 is the lowest resolution available at any refresh rate.

First I found out that the nVidia 22.50's I love so much simply don't work with TV Out. The option is there but it will not activate.

Second, I tried the stock MS GF3 drivers with don't support TV Out at all. Not even an option.

Third, I tried Elsa's Driver (Elsa920 23.11) which finally worked but here are the problems:

- 800 X 600 is the only resolution option.
- The image is squished horizontally and their are NO controls to adjust the Hz or Vertical screen size. They have position control but no resize control. My past ATI (Rage/Radeon) products always have!
- During Full Screen playback the image just plain sucks! It is distorted with horizontal lines, like interlacing lines out of sync. I tried multiple video sources including a few DVD's through PowerDVD and Media Player. Power DVD has output options but none made any difference.

I did this about a year ago when I RIPed some Sopranos episodes from DVD to MPEG2 then recorded them to VHS tape. I did it on a Radeon64 VIVO and it was excellent.

I could see that if one wanted to use their PC as a DVD player to a Television you would be unable to.



Any suggestions?

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: boead on 2001-12-31 12:04:23 ]</font>

[shiro]

ok i just found a nice lil prog that gets around the driver prob i have an elsa galadic 511 with tv out and had the same probs. The proggy is called tvtool you can find it in most search engins. Hope this is of some help.