[Powerpc - Debian unstable] Color screen cloning: S-Video <-> PAL TV working, nearly flawlessly

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Happy news ... :) .... :
>
> At least with the very latest xorg packages on Debian unstable/powerpc
> software is getting installed, that enables screen cloning to an
> external PAL TV monitor, in color mode. This is accomplished here via
> the S-Video connector on the computer.
>
> A color video can be seen here with mplayer, on the telly, if the LCD
> is switched off. This picture is played by mplayer, and seen on the
> TV set:
>
> http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/8523/kellyeyesscaleddp2.jpg
>
> (The girl is Kelly Marie, from a video that should be available via
> http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Transparency/Internet_Porn - and
> no, it's no porn video ... :)
>
> Funny thing: watching a video on this telly seems to create a much
> more pleasing picture on the TV monitor, than the X/KDE desktop as it
> is seen on the TV set itself:

Well, PAL is a fixed resolution.  The tv-encoder hw has a scaler that
scales the desktop image to the format of the tv.  In theory you can
use any size desktop with the scaler, however, only 800x600 has been
implemented at the moment.  The desktop image looks crappy because
it's scaled.

Alex