[xine-user] better TV-out

[Florin A. <fl...@an...>]

I have a PC which i use as a multimedia center. It is connected (video
and audio) to my home theater, so i can play everything audio/video with
it.
The graphics card is a GeForce2 MX400. It has two TV-out connectors, a
S-Video and a composite.
The thing is, no matter which TV-out connector i use, i have these
issues:
- the level of black is too high; as a result, the image is washed out,
i have to reduce the brightness on my TV (which breaks my "perfect"
settings) but even then the luma curve is weird, the contrast seems to
have a strange dependency on the local brightness.
- the actual image is smaller than the useful area; i mean, the card
seems to generate the normal NTSC frame, but it uses only a part of it;
there's a small black border all around the image; the worst consequence
is that, if i watch interlaced material (SVCD), the scanlines in the
image do not match the scanlines on the TV; this way i loose all the
benefit of watching interlaced material on an interlaced display
(although it is fine when watching progressive material)

I want to replace this card with something that works better: true black
level, and true scanline matching, no black borders. It must generate
NTSC signal.

What do you guys use as a TV-out device?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/