tv-out problems

i'm having problems with the aspect ratio using the tv-out, it's all stretched. In nview i checked the "fixed aspect ratio scaling" option instead of the default "display adaptor scaling", but this only works at resolutions lower than 640x480. the notebook screen is widescreen, but my tv is 4:3. so any resolution i choose above 512x384 now the image on my tv is scretch like widescreen, but i want it to be 4:3, so it fill the screen correctly. does anyone know how to do this?

 

How are you connecting to the TV? What cable and port are you using?

 

i'm connecting with a 4-pin s-video cable. that is for both sides, 4-pin s-video out the notebook and 4-pin s-video in the tv. the port on the notebook is a 7-pin port, but i've read that shouldn't matter. And it does output on the tv to 4:3, but only at resolutions lower than 640x480. anything above that the image is stretched wide.

 

The answer is you do need to use a 7 pin cable straight from the laptop to the TV.

 

thanks alot for replying donald. i will try that out, hope i can find one (over here in europe they mostly sell 4-pin connector type s-video cables).
the 4-pin s-video cable i use doesn't have pin 5,7 and 7. maybe its those i need for extra signal information to make it work at higer resolutions, because pins 6 and 7 deliver extra composite signal information:

1 GND Ground (Y)
2 GND Ground (C)
3 Y Intensity (Luminance)
4 C Color (Chrominance)
5 - -
6 V Composite Video
7 VGND Composite Ground

 

Ehrm, why don't you choose the TV as the primary display device. The image on your laptop will be stretched, but you can easily turn set the laptop monitor as the primary display device. This is the way I always use the TV-out on my desktop, and it works flawlessly on my laptop too. Even with the 4-pins s-video cable.

 

hello. i'm a newbie here. i hope you someone can help me out here. i have a problem with my tv out video card, it's working though coz i can see on tv what i see on my monitor. but when i play movie with bsplayer or windows movie player, its not showing on tv but you can see subtitles, but no images of the movie. is there something i should do that i missed?

 

Not to cause trouble, but S-Video only requires 4-pins. The extra pins are something that graphics card manufacturers put on the computer so they can have a dedicated composite output signal. For my current laptop the composite adaptor just connectes the composite output of the S-Video port to the RCA connector on the other end. There is definately no need for those other three pins since the S-Video standard does not require them. They are only there for connection to composite through an adaptor. You can read more on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video

As far as the problem that is being experienced, I find that you just need to change the resolution of the main display to get it working properly. I always change the resolution of my main screen to 1024x768 and then mirror the display. This works very well on all of the TVs I've used. The other option is to do extended desktop where both screens show different images and set the resolution of the second screen to 1024x768 or lower. The disadvantage to this is that most graphics cards can't show video or 3D on the second screen so YMMV.

Donald: Does the HGL-30 come with a S-Video-to-Composite adaptor?

 

Hi ,

Im having basic problem in setting up TV Out from my Dell Inspiron 1505 notebook. I have a cable which is having 7 pin male S Video connector which goes to notebook and on the other end of the cable i have composite (RCA) output with three male plug of color red/yellow/white those three get plugged into my TV audio video input sockets.

Now my notebook does recognise the TV as secondry display this i figured out that when i press Fn+F8 i get options to choose from notebook +TV ,TV only or Notebook only display.
But problem is there is nothing displayed on the TV no matter which combination i choose. In control panel> display settings i do get option to set resolution and all other settings for TV but nothing get displayed on TV.

I have verified connections of cable they are correct but still does not get anything.

Please suggest.

 

I confirm that you don't need a 7 pin cable.
1 use a 4 pin s-video in the Compal and Scart on the TV.

But let me remember that the setup in n-view sometimes is complicated..

 

Maybe the answer is NVIDIA ForceWare 84.74, remembered from my search for the optimal driver that this version was one that didn't have the stretching problem in my case, don't know if it is the same stretching problem.

I use clone and full screen on TV.