Outputting a composite signal in the framebuffer

Lorian · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Bristol

Here's a problem, my video card has s-video output, but my TV, while it supports s-video, you have to press AV 4 times to use it when turning it on. I have solved this in X, I have just set "TVOutFormat" to "COMPOSITE", but is there any way to do it in the framebuffer? As you may know, using s-video when it is looking for a composite signal looks like crap. It's not a big issue, but it'd just be nice to have it sorted.

didymos · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:24 am Post subject:

I think that's dependent on the program, but I don't really know. What I'm wondering is if it'd be practical to get an s-video switch and use that to choose inputs, so that you could just leave the TV set to s-video all the time. They're not that expensive, and a lot of them can do signal conversion from composite to s-video.
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