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toilet:
I have two small problems that are fairly common, though the fixes don't seem to be working with me.

1). When running s-video from GF2 to TV the picture is black and white. I've seen people complain about this, and all they've had to do was in Device Selection set the Output Device to S-Video from Auto-Select. Unfortunately it stays black and white for me.

2). Black borders around left and right side of TV image. I have about 1" ob black on either side of the image on a 32" TV. I've been to the TV MAME page (http://www.trouble-makers.com/kami/emulation) on custom resolutions, and added them fine, but nothing changed at all.

I don't know if it's me or XP or what. I know XP doesn't allow windows to go into any resolution less than 800 x 600. Also, if I launch a SFA (which uses 384 x 224) while connected to my monitor, it still ends up displaying at 800 x 600. Is there some command-line setting I should be adding? I have a feeling it's still being sent at 800 x 600 to the TV, since the video barely flickers or changes size from windows to MAME, however a full screen command prompt utilizes the whole screen.

Testu, I know this is your department, and I'd appreciate any advice you could give. I know you're down with the TView scan converters, but I thought you were able to tweak the black borders with just the hacked resolutions into the NVidia drivers.

Thanks.

Zipper:
Do you run the S-Video lead into your T.V. through an adaptor into the SCART socket?

Becasue when I did that, I got black and white results.

The only way i could fix it was to plug the S-video lead straight into the S-Video socket.

toilet:
Nope, straight svideo to svideo. There's an adapter to convert to generic rca video cable, and that works.

aramis:
the black borders are most likely due to your GF2 card using a Chrontel or Conexant tv-out chip. The solutions are:

- try TVTOOL software...it can fix the issue for SOME flavors of Chrontel/Conexant chips.

- get an nVidia card w/ VIVO, since they use the Philips chipset which does not have the issue to begin with.

- a scan converter might work, I dunno...never used one.

tetsu96:
It's mainly crappy driver support for the TV out.

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