Matrox Marvel G200 and TV out

[Calabuig]

I have this problem: my MMG200 has the TV-out, but the computer signal in the Tv screen isn't a real full screen. The MM G400 has the CLONE-DUAL HEAD and it makes a perfect full screen. Can't MMG200 do it, too? Does a software exist to make a full screen signal?

Calabuig

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[wkulecz]

This seems to be a flaw in the G200 Marvel.
I found TV out feature useless for the reason you mention, and there doesn't seem to be a fix that works for everyone. I never spent much time worrying about it and figured the Analog output was just for playing MJPEG video back to tape -- which it does admirably.

I think TV out works best at VGA (640x480) resolution and gets worse as your desktop size goes up, but I didn't spend much time permuting the combinations to try and make it work.

If you are wanting TV out to play your desktop full screen so you can record MPEGs or non-MJPEG AVIs to tape I think you'll need to upgrade to the G400 Marvel, if setting your desktop to 640x480 60Hz doesn't fill the TV screen adaquately with TV out enabled.

--wally.