[ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

piskie ubuntu at talktalk.net
Fri Nov 7 20:35:32 GMT 2008


not sure then - I'm fairly positive that was all I needed to add, but I
could be mistaken.

The only other difference being that I use seperate x screens rather
than clone

Als my tv seems to show 2 outputs from svideo input - av2 and yc2 - av2
is b/w - yc2 is colour

Sorry

David King wrote:
> I tried those options in the xorg.conf file, but it made no difference, 
> I am still left with just a black and white output on the TV.
> 
> I also tried
> 
> Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
> 
> but that did not help either.
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David King wrote:
>> Thanks piskie, I only found
>> Option "TV Format" "PAL-I"
>> when I searched on Google and tried that, but it did not work. I will 
>> try your suggestion and see if that works.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> piskie wrote:
>>   
>>> >From memory only and a quick look I believe I added similar to this into
>>> xorg in the device section
>>>
>>> Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
>>> Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>>>
>>> I never needed to use nvtv - not sure what card you're using but I have
>>> and had tvout on an old Geforce4
>>>
>>> I never tried nvtv so can't help with that
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>>   
> 



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