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Turning an old PC into a Media Centrr - S-video issues
SanderJK
Crocodylus Pontifex SinterklasicusMadrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
Crocodylus Pontifex SinterklasicusMadrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
For a bit, we've been working on a project:
We had an old PC, a P4 2.8mhz, 2gb ram, Ati Radeon 9600Pro. Now we wanted to turn it into a Media Center. We checked the card and the TV (A Philips Matchline, one of the old big widescreen CRT ones), and it had an S-video, as does the PC.
We reinstalled Windows XP (SP3), Installed the Ati Catalyst drivers and Media center. We plug in the S-video on both sides... and get a only a very partial picture of screen. Some portion of the upper half is showing, but the color is off and it's flickering. It's off on both resolution and refresh rate, by the looks of it. We tried just about every thinkable combination in the settings (Both windows and catalyst) and just can't get it to work.
What it does do is recognize the second monitor as a TV. But I'm not sure what's going wrong here, never done it before, and from basic searches it should just work without a hitch.
We had an old PC, a P4 2.8mhz, 2gb ram, Ati Radeon 9600Pro. Now we wanted to turn it into a Media Center. We checked the card and the TV (A Philips Matchline, one of the old big widescreen CRT ones), and it had an S-video, as does the PC.
We reinstalled Windows XP (SP3), Installed the Ati Catalyst drivers and Media center. We plug in the S-video on both sides... and get a only a very partial picture of screen. Some portion of the upper half is showing, but the color is off and it's flickering. It's off on both resolution and refresh rate, by the looks of it. We tried just about every thinkable combination in the settings (Both windows and catalyst) and just can't get it to work.
What it does do is recognize the second monitor as a TV. But I'm not sure what's going wrong here, never done it before, and from basic searches it should just work without a hitch.
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The tv out socket on the back of the 9600 may look like s-video, but it may be a custom connector that needs a converter/drop cable to connect to anything. One should have come with the card, but stuff like that gets lost about 10mins after opening the box in my house.
Should be able to pick up a replacement from ebay, but a new cheap vid card may be better value and will come with the needed adapter in box.
(it makes me sad that your 'old' PC is pretty much the same as my current pc)
I messed with the frequency a bit, and if I set it to 60Hz the image does become close to stable frequency wise, but it's still very off color, and only shows a tiny bit of desktop area (I'd say around 400x240 from the center of the screen or so... it seems to small for 640x480).
I think a friend has a TV-Out USB contraption, gonna see if that works when I can get a hold of him...