Copyright © 2004 Tony Houghton
| Revision History | |
|---|---|
| Revision 1.43 | 17 January 2007 |
| Replaced link to unichrome project with openchrome. | |
| Revision 1.42 | 9 January 2007 |
| Corrected missing < in Voodoo patch recipe. | |
| Revision 1.41 | 23 July 2006 |
| Fixed link to subdomain. Added link to Martijn Uffing's bt869 patches. | |
| Revision 1.40 | 23 July 2006 |
| New location. Interlaced frame syncing in MythTV. Updated comment about getting MPlayer to compile with XvMC and nvidia-glx. New info about deinterlacing filters and MythTV glsync. | |
| Revision 1.31 | 24 February 2006 |
| Note about relocation to reduce bandwidth. Antispam paragraph more prominent. | |
| Revision 1.30 | 11 February 2006 |
| Updates for Matrox RGB out and DirectFB kernel patch and options. | |
| Revision 1.21 | 31 October 2005 |
| bt869 patch for kernel 2.6.14. | |
| Revision 1.20 | 27 July 2005 |
| Added more useful information about NVidia cards and tweaked Matrox section. | |
| Revision 1.15 | 27 July 2005 |
| Added new bt869 (Voodoo 3) patch for kernel 2.6.12, courtesy of Henrik Persson, and improved various remarks about Voodoo 3, interlacing and DirectFB. | |
| Revision 1.14 | 4 February 2005 |
| Separate modprobe commands for bt869 and i2c-voodoo3 | |
| Revision 1.13 | 4 February 2005 |
| Corrected and updated directions for applying bt869 patches | |
| Revision 1.12 | 4 February 2005 |
| Missing GATOS chip IDs | |
| Revision 1.11 | 3 February 2005 |
| Need to build xfree86 for GATOS | |
| Revision 1.10 | 3 February 2005 |
| Results of testing with G200 | |
| Revision 1.9 | 24 January 2005 |
| Unichrome driver for EPIA systems | |
| Revision 1.8 | 20 January 2005 |
| X.org doesn't support TV-out GATOS-style; update on ATI RGB (thanks to Jeremy Wilkins) | |
| Revision 1.7 | 12 January 2005 |
| X.org possible alternative to GATOS; DXR3 sound quality; maybe not all Matroxes support composite sync; new Matrox TV-out section; updated bt869 patch; misc small amendments | |
| Revision 1.6 | 18 November 2004 |
| DXR3 section and other minor changes | |
| Revision 1.5 | 1 November 2004 |
| More info about Matrox and interlacing | |
| Revision 1.4 | 1 November 2004 |
| BT869 support not in kernel 2.6.9 after all | |
| Revision 1.3 | 24 October 2004 |
| BT869 support in kernel 2.6.9 | |
| Revision 1.2 | 6 October 2004 |
| MPlayer deinterlacing with -vsync -vo sdl | |
| Revision 1.1 | 5 October 2004 |
| Added paragraph about GATOS not supporting recent chips. Gave GATOS sections more meaningful titles | |
| Revision 1.0 | 30 September 2004 |
| First draft | |
Table of Contents
This article is a guide to getting a good TV picture (PAL or NTSC as opposed to HDTV) from a PC running Linux without an expensive external converter. The emphasis is on using the PC as some sort of video player, although some of the options are probably well-suited to playing games. Trying to do any sort of "work" using a TV screen instead of a monitor is not recommended. Some familiarity with terms such as VGA, RGB and S-Video is assumed as well as the ability to configure XFree86, compile the kernel and other software, and set boot-time module configurations.
I can not guarantee the exact location of this document due to vagaries of whatever domain hosting package I'm using at any given time, but you should always be able to find it by going to http://www.realh.co.uk and following the link. I will also try to make it available directly at either http://www.realh.co.uk/tvhowto or http://tvhowto.realh.co.uk/.