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Hi, sorry but I didn't find on how to scratch the S-VIDEO output. Could you supply more information ? Thanks
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Has anybody tried the 3rd party dongle that is just HD? It doesn't have S-Video. There are lots of them on ebay for $14.50. It looks just like the official Microsoft HDAV dongle.
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I've been using the Psyclone cables for years, great quality totally happy with them.
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I was going to buy some of those, which were on amazon.com, but they are now discontinued from there.
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I had been wanting to do this since I got my HDTV but had not had the chance to really look into it. A friend showed me what I would need, and I found the MS HD AV Pack for $10 bucks via a swap meet. To anyone who's not done this and has a HDTV its now I think a absolute must. Before without this pack I was dissapointed how XBMC looked on my new tv, words were all nasty looking, like pixalated, things like that. Once I hooked it up with the pack I still didn't see much of a difference, took me about a day and a half to remember I had to enable it in the settings. I was thrilled with the way it looked.
So as some might think as I did once that 'eh its just a nice addon I don't really need,' WRONG. It's a must.
So for me the MS HD AV Pack worked awesome, no ghosting, just perfect.
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The yobo Component cables work fine for me. You can add those to the list if you want. All they have though is just the three components and stereo sound.
That is fine for most though.
Best of luck!
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A simple question: is best component output or VGA?
On my TV-LCD i have connected a pal-XBOX (switched to NTSC) and choosed the 720p resolution and i see all ok. But if I launch a game or a emu, the resolution changes and the top-left corner moves about 100 pixel to the upper-left loosing a part of the screen-output... why? With a component cable i will have the same result?
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nicoli_k
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Inside of the emulator, there should be a setting to recalibrate the screen. Calibrating the screen inside of XBMC has no influence on the screen settings of any other application you launch. Try to see if you can fix it inside of the emulators or games.
When posting about a problem please submit a
debug log to give you the best chance at getting an answer. It's easy, painless, and helps provide necessary information.
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Thanks for the reply!
I will try... but for games? for example, TheGodFather have not screen setup section! And i tried to launch it in NTSC-J, NTSC-M or PAL60 mode and nothing changes. The LCD input source are set to VGA ... BIOS are eXecuter2 (latest version) VGA Patched (<- by me); XBOX are v1.4 (with 128MB/500GB HD)... it's a strange effect! If I buy/selfmade a component cable, i will have the same problem? Boh...
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I see what you're saying now. I didn't realize it was doing it with Xbox games. I thought you were referring to Emulators and Homebrew games.
If you can boot the original MS Dash, you can check to see if you have 720 enabled and try to enable or disable "Wide Screen" to see if that changes anything.
I've got a component cable and haven't had any problems with it, but hopefully this is something messed up with your settings so you won't have to get a different cable.
If it is your settings, then you'd likely see the same problem with a component cable. Try ruling out the configuration first.
When posting about a problem please submit a
debug log to give you the best chance at getting an answer. It's easy, painless, and helps provide necessary information.
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Has anyone ever had any problems with their cables after they have installed them then gone back to rca then finally back to the componet cable?