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ahofle:
--- Quote from: ChicagoDave on May 25, 2007, 09:41:40 am ---1) Will this program adjust the frequencies via the S-Video output or is the S-Video output always forced to standard NTSC?
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I haven't been able to find a definitive answer on this, but I'm pretty sure S-video is always 480i NTSC (or 576i for PAL). Component can be 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. I don't believe they go lower than that. So no matter what resolution you set in MAME, I'm fairly sure your video card's TV out circuitry will just bastardize the signal into 480i. This would explain why I always found that setting MAME's resolution to 640x480 looked the best on my TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video
RandyT:
This is just some speculation on my part, so take it as such;
*edit* Turns out it was based on bad memory. Deleted to avoid confusion. :P
RandyT
ahofle:
Hmm interesting. Though I had always assumed that anti-flicker setting simply blurred the image sent to the TV more so that fine one pixel horizontal lines like you'd find in Windows would be blurred/spread across multiple lines and hence would not flicker as badly. I remember playing around with that setting and noticing that as the flicker went away, the image was more and more blurred.
I wish there was more information out there on this stuff. I can hardly find anything about how video card TV-out circuitry works (or even how the DVI to component dongle works). Maybe I'm not searching correctly. :dunno
bb040:
Hey Steak where did you get the frame you used on your TV was the one on the old monitor?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: ahofle on May 25, 2007, 01:13:13 pm ---Hmm interesting. Though I had always assumed that anti-flicker setting simply blurred the image sent to the TV more so that fine one pixel horizontal lines like you'd find in Windows would be blurred/spread across multiple lines and hence would not flicker as badly. I remember playing around with that setting and noticing that as the flicker went away, the image was more and more blurred.
I wish there was more information out there on this stuff. I can hardly find anything about how video card TV-out circuitry works (or even how the DVI to component dongle works). Maybe I'm not searching correctly. :dunno
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I think you are correct on that one as your recollection has jogged my memory. Most likely I've confused it with one of the flicker controls on a video scaler I've used in the past.
So bummer, it's probably canned and nothing can be changed for standard TV out :P Anyone know what kind of circuitry the component outputs are subjected to?
RandyT