ATI AIW 8500 and TV Display

[mpcrider]

This is a question about the ATI All In Wonder. Hope this is the right forum, as I didn't see anywhere else to put it.

I'm using an AIW 8500 as my TV-Out card (PVR250 for the vid capture) and everything looks fine, except there's a 10-20 pixel bar at the bottom of my screen that's not displaying anything.

Like I said, this isn't a Sage problem, as nothing gets displayed there, regardless of the program I'm running.

I have tried going into Settings > Advanced > Displays and playing with the Overscan and Position, both in Sage (overscan) and in the Video display properties (ATI commands beneath the Windows XP display windows) but no solution.

This TV output is coming from the ATI dongel. I was also running a second video output via the DVI connector to an analog monitor. It was using the full screen. I changed my second monitor to a Dell LCD and that's working even better (no smushed screen there).

Not sure where to go for info, as ATI doesn't have a discussion board (bad call on their part). Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[pawn]

This is a well known problem with the older Radeon cards. I used to have it.

I'm surprised you can't eliminate it with either the the Sage overscan adjustment or ATI's overscan adjustment.

Have you tried updated drivers?

You could always use Powerstrip, which I guarantee will eliminate it one way or another.

[jominor]

I've got that ATI 8500. The solution should be to got

display properties->advanced->displays and pick the TV. On the adjustments tab you can widen the picture.

Also, I *highly* recommend using the RAVISENT DVD decoder that works came with the disk. By using that decoder, which is hardware accelerated, you will get a great picture. I'm using the beat(.14) and its color calibration settings made the picture quality amazing.

I'm going to try the cyberlink decoder that ships with the newest cards for one reason. VMR9 support which doesn't work with the RAVISENT decoder. I want to try out VMR9 and I hope that this decoder supports it.

Regardless, the RAVISENT and 8500 give me better than live signal quality.