Brain Picking: XBMC and NTSC

[LynnInDenver]

I'm currently towards the "fiddly bits" of trying to get an XMBCuntu 11 install to talk to my television. The video card - the ONLY one I can use on the box - is VGA/HDMI/DVI (PNY GeForce 210 DDR2 512M PCie 2.0). My television is a 10-year-old Panasonic, Composite/Component/Svideo inputs. I'm trying to use an older Apple DVI-Composite/Svideo adapter. I can see video, of sorts... all sorts of "bad sync and resolution" oddness.
Does anyone have any recommendation for a resolution/refresh setting that will work with this combination? It's fairly obvious to me that it's really just a "correct settings" issue.
And for the record, replacing the television with a flat panel isn't an option, both budget wise, and that I have a large number of old-school light-gun video games that I like to bust out. Plus, I'm only really doing this so I can watch YouTube video on the television, without relying on the Xbox's broken YouTube app, because otherwise I watch so little television at home it isn't even funny. And I just happened to have the parts handy to try to build a media center PC.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[hmelton]

Divide and check  I don't know much about the equipment you listed, but when I'm setting up a daisy chain of older equipment and what's going in isn't coming out right I've learned the hard way to try and make sure the ports I'm connecting up are actually working correctly.
Also your doing a lot of converting of your video so you shouldn't be surprised if your light gun games has a few problems.
Speaking of Games you know SVideo has no sound so you will have to run other cables for sound.
If you have something else that puts out a SVideo signal hook it to the Panasonic's SVideo and see what you get.
Do you have something that can see a DVI signal? try that on the video card's DVI output.
Here are a couple of wikipedia links on DVI and SVideo and a on linking computer to panasonic with some SVideo settings mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
http://www.ehow.com/how_7215168_connect ... sonic.html
hmelton
God Bless

[LynnInDenver]

Divide and check  I don't know much about the equipment you listed, but when I'm setting up a daisy chain of older equipment and what's going in isn't coming out right I've learned the hard way to try and make sure the ports I'm connecting up are actually working correctly.

OK

Also your doing a lot of converting of your video so you shouldn't be surprised if your light gun games has a few problems.

 All my game systems are hooked up directly to the television. I have no intentions of feeding them through the media center, because that would disrupt the signals for the guns.

Speaking of Games you know SVideo has no sound so you will have to run other cables for sound.
If you have something else that puts out a SVideo signal hook it to the Panasonic's SVideo and see what you get.  

PS2 and Gamecube both output to it on an svideo cable.

Do you have something that can see a DVI signal? try that on the video card's DVI output.  

This is where I'm configuring the media center, so it does output DVI.

Here are a couple of wikipedia links on DVI and SVideo and a on linking computer to panasonic with some SVideo settings mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
http://www.ehow.com/how_7215168_connect ... sonic.html
hmelton
God Bless

I'll take a look at those when I have a chance (busy today and tonight). If I can't set it in software to work with Apple's little adapter, I'll have to source another adapter from somewhere.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[LynnInDenver]

Hm. I think I should be somewhat more specific about the Panasonic, besides "10 years old". It's an old lo-def tube type, so HDMI is nowhere near what it can handle.
Update: I tried the same computer and Apple-adapter-whatsit with an even older portable LCD television, with similar results. So I either need  a pci "old video" output option, or a different adapter.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor