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

[Erik Kristensen]

I would just to extend my thanks to Xavier and the rest of you, the
latest works, so that must mean that patch works!

Thank you for your help.

-Erik

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Xavier Bachelot<xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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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