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M4tt0, does one of your HDMI ports support "PC" or "DVI" resolutions?
My parents old Samsung 720p TV has an HDMI port that is labelled up for DVI and that can accept 1360x768 @50hz over HDMI. Makes the picture much better. Correct scaling etc.
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Hi ant_thomas,
Looking at the latest manual (from 2006!) the HDMI port on the TV cannot (see my initial post for all the officially supported HDMI resolutions). The manual also contains statements that a PC should be connected via the VGI input. But again, this was 2006. If fritsch or you or someone else know some magic to enable a better mode I will be more than happy to test it!
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Google: Modeline xorg.conf
We have some of those in our wiki and mythtv wiki has some others.
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OK. Here we go:
(1) The mythtv wiki has a custom modeline for 1360x768@60Hz
(2) The wiki pixel-mapping guide for 1366 x 768 lists my TV as well and seems to reconfirm my initial assumption: They state:
- No pixel-mapping via HDMI
- Possible via VGA
(3) I also found some Intel guy stating that many TVs at the time used "customer" HDMI technology that was not very flexible at the time and could only handle a limited number of resolutions like 720p and 1080i
(4) I simply tested my initial idea and connected the NUC to the TV via the MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter cable:
- Relaunching Kodi immediately gave me the 1360x768@60Hz mode I was looking for, no way to change to 50Hz though.
- For the first time: No overscan! I get reasonable resolutions on the console and can even see the NUC BIOS on my TV (heyhoo!)
(5) Connected both, the MiniDisplayPort -> VGA adapter and the HDMI out (to split off audio). Again: works! In Kodi I can chose between HDMI1 and DP1 AND I get the sound via HDMI -> HDMI Switch with SPDIF -> old school receiver
(6) With that I could switch back and forth and see the difference:
Clear answer:
- 720p@50 via HDMI looks way better than 1360x768@60 via VGA, especially the colours. Played around with the TV settings a little bit (deactivating all the processing), but no significant improvement. Also limiting the color range in Kodi did not improve the colours.
I will stick with 720p via HDMI now, accept the overscan (no pixel-mapping) and keep the adapter cable plugged in my TV to use it whenever I need to access the BIOS. Need a new TV but will wait until the 4k stuff has settled...
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You did not even try the xorg.conf with the modeline ...
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2014-09-18, 06:48
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-18, 06:49 by fritsch.)
Try the exact modeline you get from VGA. No other ideas beide that one.
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It's relatively rare to find a VGA input that will support 50Hz - it's a real pain when you are trying to pixel match a non-HDTV resolution panel when the HDMI input will accept 50Hz video at non-panel resolution, and the VGA will accept panel resolution video, but not at 50Hz.
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Aftert recent sudo apt-get update/upgrade to Alpha4 the options for the MADI/MCDI deinterling have vanished leaving the usual bob/weave/deinterlace etc...
Any ideas on that? Thanks
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Provide what the first page wants, thanks.
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Compare with mainline / nightlies - same issue there?
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