HOWTO: Watch videos with TV-Out from Xrandr

[eumetaxas]

Hi and thanks for the tutorial.
I am in Europe and tried

xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 --set tv_standard pal
xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1
Found Xv 2.2
XV_CRTC set to 1

It did not return any errors. Using it i was able to see something like waves on my tv . It seems like the tv is not synchronising or something like that (excuse me for my non tech terms). It a Phiips CRT 29inch.

i have a nx9010 compaq laptop with a Radeon IGP 345M, using hardy 8.04 LTS
Tried atitvout but did not work either.

 dmesg | grep agp
[ 41.114541] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[ 41.328190] agpgart: Detected Ati IGP345M chipset
[ 41.338886] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd4000000 

lspci
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

XORG.CONF
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Thank you for your help!

[anderssl]

When I entered

xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600

I got:

xrandr: cannot find output "S-video"

I have exactly the same problem as zuzoa. I see this thread is getting old, but I`m still a clueless noob and can`t fix this myself... Anyone know why my xrandr can`t find the S-video output?

I`m using 8.10 on an Acer Travelmate 4501 with an ATI 9700 radeon graphics card. I`m not getting anything on my tv screen, nada... I`m using a simple adapter from s-video to basic video, if that matters to anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Anders

[jocko]

I have exactly the same problem as zuzoa. I see this thread is getting old, but I`m still a clueless noob and can`t fix this myself... Anyone know why my xrandr can`t find the S-video output?

I`m using 8.10 on an Acer Travelmate 4501 with an ATI 9700 radeon graphics card. I`m not getting anything on my tv screen, nada... I`m using a simple adapter from s-video to basic video, if that matters to anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Anders

Which driver do you use?
With ati's proprietary driver you need to use the catalyst control center to change tv-out settings.
randr should work fine with the open source driver.
Which outputs are detected by randr? Run:

randr -q

[anderssl]

Thanks for replying! I`d been playing around with both the open source drivers and the proprietary ones, not getting stuff to work. In the end something went seriously wrong, I wasn`t even able to boot. so I ended up reinstalling the whole system. Now, at a fresh install, I`ve followed this howto once more, and get the following output from xrandr -q:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1200
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   800x600        60.3

Running just randr -q gives "Command not found"...

Any idea what the problem can be?

[fermulator]

Thanks for replying! I`d been playing around with both the open source drivers and the proprietary ones, not getting stuff to work. In the end something went seriously wrong, I wasn`t even able to boot. so I ended up reinstalling the whole system. Now, at a fresh install, I`ve followed this howto once more, and get the following output from xrandr -q:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1200
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   800x600        60.3

Running just randr -q gives "Command not found"...

Any idea what the problem can be?

What about

xrandr -q

?

I'm having the same problem, my xrandr -q returns:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 3360 x 1050
DVI-1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
1680x1050 59.9*+
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1280x960 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9
720x400 70.1
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

It doesn't show S-video as a device ....

[anderssl]

It seems that the open source drivers don't support TV-Out on ATI graphics cards. I messed around for a long time in the documentation before I finally found that piece of info buried somewhere in a footnote (can't find it right now, will post link if I find it later). As for the propietary drivers, they are too unstable for my machine (I tried twice, and had to reinstall my system both times). So for now, no TV-Out on ATI...

[fermulator]

Apparently it's "soon to be fixed" -- see my post here: http://phoronix.com/forums/showpost....3&postcount=13

[anderssl]

Apparently it's "soon to be fixed" -- see my post here: http://phoronix.com/forums/showpost....3&postcount=13

Hey, thanks a lot for the link! My card is r300, so looks like I should already be covered. Geronimo!

[diablostereo]

the first method works also with vlc if you use x11 or opengl as the video output

[hissyfut]

Having some problems understanding xrandr syntax. Trying to get the tv out to match clone the monitor. The output need to be shifted left or right and up or down. And the output needs to be resized. Tried --pos which does fair but it does not seem to shift the screen 'x' way, and trying --scale 1.xx1.x with 'x' being anything over 1 does correct output but changing the monitor. If anyone can post some examples of xrandr moving an output screen around and also resizing examples it would be greatly appreciated.