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

[Xavier Bachelot]

> 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.
>
F10 : http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=115043
F11 : http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=115042
Rawhide : already available in the repos.

X.

> 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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