[Openchrome-users] Issues with TV Out (S-Video)

[Erik Kristensen]

Where are these rpms located at? I would love to try them out ... I
have been struggling to try and compile these drivers myself for
fedora, but I hadn't had much luck.

Thanks,
-Erik

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Xavier Bachelot<xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> Erik Kristensen wrote:
>>> Greetings everyone.
>>>
>>> I am having issues trying to get s-video out working properly on my
>>> system using the openchrome drivers.
>>>
>>> Basically the output is all screwed and scrambled.
>>>
>>> Mainboard: VIA EPIA-CN10000EG
>>>
>>> I have read just about everything I could find via google on open
>>> chrome, epia via, and s-video out in linux (fedora). Everything I have
>>> tried has failed to work except one, if I place vbemodes equals true
>>> in my configuration I get s-video up on my screen perfectly or
>>> composite, both will work at thsi point, the only problem is that all
>>> video and audio playback is extremely choppy and slow, however if I
>>> just plug the system into a monitor and do video/audio playback it is
>>> smooth, so that is what leads me to believe the vbemodes is causing
>>> the issues. But again if I don't use vbemodes I can't get svideo or
>>> composite out working.
>>>
>>> I built this system to be the frontend for my mythtv setup, thus the
>>> reasoning for connecting it to a TV. I have thought about purchaseing
>>> a vga to s-video converter, but would rather get the onboard working
>>> if possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Erik
>>>
>> The TV encoder used on this board is a VT1625 and there was a patch
>> posted to enhance VT1625 supportsome time ago, but it was not reviewed
>> yet and thus not committed to SVN. However, some people tried it and
>> reported success, it might help with your issue.
>>
>> The original patch doesn't apply anymore to trunk, I'm attaching an
>> updated version.
>>
> The Fedora packages that are on their way to updates-testing have this
> patch applied (0.2.903-8.fc10; 0.2.903-12.fc11; 0.2.903-12.fc12).
> Feedback welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
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