Re: [xine-user] xine / Video-Out / Videoprojector

[Marcel J. <ko...@ho...>]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:19, Michael Roitzsch wrote:
> TV-Out signals will always be 4:3 and are a bad choice for DVDs anyway,
> since you lose a good part of the image's resolution, because the bandwidth
> of most TV chips does not suffice to transmit all the pixels.

TV-out like on a dxr3 has a widescreen mode, but I'm not sure whether it 
actually gives any better performance.

> You should definitely consider connecting a beamer with a VGA or even
> better, with a DVI cable. If the beamer announces its native resolution
> correctly to the graphics card, xine will use the entire area for 16:9
> material. (I don't know a way to verify this in advance, but I would
> consider any beamer broken, when it fails to do this right.)

Correct, this is the usual way to connect to a projector and gives best 
performance. You can specify a 16/9 modeline for xorg.
You'll probably have to specify several modelines for different frame rates as 
well.

My webpage is still under construction, but has some part written about xorg 
and has some links to other pages that may be helpful.
http://members.home.nl/mphm.janssen/linuxvideo/homecinema.html

Regards,
Marcel