oddball
26th August 2003, 15:30
I switched from a Matrox G400 to an Nvidia card (Mainly because the new MB would not accept the older Matrox voltage). It's left me with a problem which I have found a workaround for but is not an ideal.
It's a GeForce4 440 MX and has TwinView whish is the equivalent of dualhead on the Matrox cards.
I am in the UK and have a widescreen TV. The Matrox card used to have an option to set TV out as 16:9 widescreen mode and everything was hunky dory. However. The Nvidia card appears to have no such mode. I realise that anamorphic 16:9 mode is basically just using the full 4:3 res on a TV and then stretching it to widescreen to get the full resolution and correct ratio (I don't think you get any extra res from side to side on widescreen TV's. At least in 576x UK PAL land. Correct me if I am wrong).
So outputting a widescreen movie to the TV out on the Nvidia card gives a 4:3 picture and I've found the only way to correctly display 16:9 images without black bars top and bottom is to force the player to throw out an anamorphic vertical stretch and letting the TV stretch it sideways to widescreen. I do this in a player like Zoom Player. However. On the monitor it is all long and distorted. It's nothing major more of a niggle. I'd like to have a proper 16:9 output option but it does not appear that TwinView (At least on this model) has the option?
Tried TV Tool latest etc and none of them seem to have the option either.
It's a GeForce4 440 MX and has TwinView whish is the equivalent of dualhead on the Matrox cards.
I am in the UK and have a widescreen TV. The Matrox card used to have an option to set TV out as 16:9 widescreen mode and everything was hunky dory. However. The Nvidia card appears to have no such mode. I realise that anamorphic 16:9 mode is basically just using the full 4:3 res on a TV and then stretching it to widescreen to get the full resolution and correct ratio (I don't think you get any extra res from side to side on widescreen TV's. At least in 576x UK PAL land. Correct me if I am wrong).
So outputting a widescreen movie to the TV out on the Nvidia card gives a 4:3 picture and I've found the only way to correctly display 16:9 images without black bars top and bottom is to force the player to throw out an anamorphic vertical stretch and letting the TV stretch it sideways to widescreen. I do this in a player like Zoom Player. However. On the monitor it is all long and distorted. It's nothing major more of a niggle. I'd like to have a proper 16:9 output option but it does not appear that TwinView (At least on this model) has the option?
Tried TV Tool latest etc and none of them seem to have the option either.