Hi everyone - newbie wiv a TV Screen...

**gshaw** · 10-13-2005, 04:51 PM

Hi everyone - nice website u got here - looks

Here's a quick pic of me car - a Rover 100 aka Metro in disguise lol...

I just got meself one of those in car TV \ LCD monitor screens - here's one on eBay just made by different manufacturer...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

What I wanna do is use the TV out on say a PC \ laptop and use that screen for the output - spec says

Super High quality Picture: 1480 (H) x 234 (V)

Ok H wise but not so much for V-res - question is how do I get a lower screen res that will show up OK on the screen - is there a special program to use or summat in say Linux that'll be more custom?

U've prob has this qu many times b4 and u mite say

or

-I jus wanna know if it's possible then I'll look a bit harder

Cheers,

Gerrard Shaw

**Cris** · 10-13-2005, 04:59 PM

Hi there and welcome.

That's a Lilliput in disguise.

Pretty sweet, it has a built in TV Tuner. I had one of those.
Unfortunatlly with S-video you can't make the image so clear on a 7" LCD. The screen is simply too little. It should be ok for GPS, videos and games though.
I don't know about any program that could help you out, except maybe Powerstrip. The way I see it is for you to make a skin with all the fonts big and clear in colours.

**gshaw** · 10-13-2005, 05:15 PM

That'll do me just fine - kinda like a Media Center skin wud do wiv massive icons - I tried doin a custom resolution wiv the Nvidia drivers but it wud only do say somethingx300 lowest - what res do u think I shud go for - say double the V-res so the display wud b squashed to 1/2 size maybe???

**gshaw** · 10-14-2005, 08:06 AM

Hey agen - I've been reading the forums trying to get some ideas - I've looked at some of the front-ends e.g. RoadRunner, FrodoPlayer etc - I see in Frodoplayer u can set custom screen resolutions for the app so could I make it so it runs on my screen or wud it look OK with one of the standard resolutions but a bit squashed?

I tried fiddling around with different res last nite - 640x468 was pretty usable with big text so how much tweaking wud I need 2 do wiv the frontend \ skins - I'm gonna try installin it 2nite and see how it goes but any advice on obvious things I mite b missin wud be much appreciated.

Cheers guys

**DarquePervert** · 10-14-2005, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by gshaw

Hey agen - I've been reading the forums trying to get some ideas - I've looked at some of the front-ends e.g. RoadRunner, FrodoPlayer etc - I see in Frodoplayer u can set custom screen resolutions for the app so could I make it so it runs on my screen or wud it look OK with one of the standard resolutions but a bit squashed?

That's the beauty of a skinnable app: you can make a skint hat looks the way you need/want it to. Most of the skins available should scale down just fine. If not, make your own!

I tried fiddling around with different res last nite - 640x468 was pretty usable with big text so how much tweaking wud I need 2 do wiv the frontend \ skins - I'm gonna try installin it 2nite and see how it goes but any advice on obvious things I mite b missin wud be much appreciated.

Spelling lessons?

**EsKALad** · 10-14-2005, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by DarquePervert

Spelling lessons?

please someone do give him some! reading this thread just ****ed me off! lol

**gshaw** · 10-14-2005, 09:51 AM

Sorry if my message before annoyed you - be assured there's nothing wrong with my spelling - just ask me for my grades in school \ 6th form if you want proof

It's just when I go on the Internet for forums \ MSN I go into lazy mode and abbreviate words just to save time - if it's annoying I apologise - I'm trying really hard in this post to type everything properly - please dont

me!!!

I'll learn by my mistakes

**evandude** · 10-14-2005, 10:10 AM

Well since nobody's mentioned it yet, you may have already figured this out, but the resolution they list isn't the "real" resolution... they include all 3 colored subpixels separately in the horizontal res, so to get the actual resolution you divide it by 3; therefore your actual res is more like 493x234.
since you're driving it with a TV signal from a computer, the actual res of what you're sending it won't be that important, just that it's the right aspect ratio, since it's going to look fuzzy no matter what.

**gshaw** · 10-14-2005, 10:19 AM

Yeah I read something about that a thread somewhere on here while I was reading other posts to get a rough idea of what to do - I thought it couldn't be 1400-odd pixels across when the graphics card was scrolling the screen on the TV output...

Wouldn't it be better to get the right resolution if I can so the screen and Windows will be the same pixel for pixel? Although if it means I have to design my own skins I'll stick with the squashed down look for now until I get a bit more knowledge of how this all works!