A couple weeks ago, I noticed the image from my video card (Geforce 5200) getting kind of dark, fuzzy, and pixelated. Watching shows was still fine, so I lived with it. Now it's gotten worse, and difficult to see things.


I have some free time today, so I started toying around. I updated the Nvidia drivers to 8762. No change. I did get a little more clarity by specifying the TVOutFormat option to "SVIDEO." I've toyed with all the brightness, saturation, hue, color, etc settings in the nvidia-settings program and my TV's controls. It's still not clear and pixelations around color gradients.

I hooked up a monitor and got perfect image. I plugged the svideo to another tv and got the same results. Actually, I use a SVideo-to-RCA jack converter. For another odd reason, the TV doesn't see a signal at all with a straight SVideo cable coming from this card. The cable works just fine when hooked to my DVD player.

So, anyone have any other suggestions? Is it very likely that only the SVideo port on the card has gone bad? I don't have any spare video cards with SVideo out on them to swap and try that right now.

Thanks.

Is it possible it is using a different color bit depth for the TV output?
Do you have any other cables to try?

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I was able to connect the SVideo directly to another TV without the RCA jack converter, but it was still the same bad picture. Actually, it's getting a bit worse, a black & white fuzzy mess. I guess it's either a new video card, or perhaps a VGA connector converter. It is still crystal clear connecting to a monitor.

It sounds like the tv-out encoder is dieing.

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