any way to get XBMC4XBOX's video output modeline?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:11 am
Hi,
I'm making something to replace XBMC4Xbox as my media center for occasionally watching retro stuff on a CRT TV, it's pretty good, supports MKVs a lot better than the aging XBOX ever could, along with subtitles and so on. But I yearn for the XBOX's video output on a CRT - it looks so crisp, clean and really good with an RGB cable. Since other than the video encoder chips and the cables, there's not much else that I could to replicate that on my more powerful system, I'm asking, please could I get whatever modeline the XBOX is using to generate its video signal? my system allows for 15khz video output and I can add to it whatever modelines I wish, it runs linux and all, but I got now way (that i know of) of retrieving whatever modeline XBMC4XBOX is using. So if I could get it, i'd REALLY appreciate it!
for anyone that doesn't know, a modeline is the specific way in which analog video is displayed - it contains several values specific to the display and afaik it's pretty had to replicate. Gonna try digging in the source code later to see if i can find the modeline myself, but hopefully someone here will help me.
ia modline looks like something like this:
Modeline "NTSC 720x480 (60Hz)" 13.846 720 744 809 880 480 488 494 525 interlace -hsync -vsync
I'm making something to replace XBMC4Xbox as my media center for occasionally watching retro stuff on a CRT TV, it's pretty good, supports MKVs a lot better than the aging XBOX ever could, along with subtitles and so on. But I yearn for the XBOX's video output on a CRT - it looks so crisp, clean and really good with an RGB cable. Since other than the video encoder chips and the cables, there's not much else that I could to replicate that on my more powerful system, I'm asking, please could I get whatever modeline the XBOX is using to generate its video signal? my system allows for 15khz video output and I can add to it whatever modelines I wish, it runs linux and all, but I got now way (that i know of) of retrieving whatever modeline XBMC4XBOX is using. So if I could get it, i'd REALLY appreciate it!
for anyone that doesn't know, a modeline is the specific way in which analog video is displayed - it contains several values specific to the display and afaik it's pretty had to replicate. Gonna try digging in the source code later to see if i can find the modeline myself, but hopefully someone here will help me.
ia modline looks like something like this:
Modeline "NTSC 720x480 (60Hz)" 13.846 720 744 809 880 480 488 494 525 interlace -hsync -vsync