Pandora tv-out review

[JeFF]

Small video uploaded on youtube.


Still uploading, try in 10 mins !


Showing a bit of SneSideo + video playback using PanPlayer.


http://youtu.be/OpDGOQ0wDKc

 

[Takedown]

looking forward to seeing how well tv-out performs on the panda

 

[JeFF]

It's actually pretty good, if not perfect. I did those cables with golden-plated ending, and the picture quality is shaaaaarp.


What's annoying, however, is having to find which apps uses ''main layer'' and which ones use ''hw scaler''

 

[Takedown]

trial and error my friend, all you need is patience

 

[BAFelton]

I began a list of emulators here if you want http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/9028-tv-out-which-emulators-do-work/

 

[elwing]

woah, this video triggered a lot of thinking I have to share...

• what happened to your thumb?
  
• quickly followed by: was soldering this cable really worth that?
  
• wow, I'm not the one in the world who's still using CRT...
  
• how did he filmed this? was it with a camera straped on his head/helmet or whatever...
  

thanks to share I really enjoyed the video

 

[JeFF]

I've cutted the end of my thumb that morning at work ( still 17, I work in a grocery store here in QC ). MY bad, that was bleeding a lot!


Soldering to TinyBoB : Easy as HELL. Try contacting Peca or Link to see if they still has some of them.


I've got a HDTV, but for my7 retro pleasure, I use crt! Nes, Snes, N64...


I was holding a cellphone, explaining my crappy performance in DKC 2

 

[Link]

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I only have EXT connectors, no more Tiny BoBs. Peca's been MIA for months unfortunately. I can't see your video, do you have a link somewhere?

 

[JeFF]

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I only have EXT connectors, no more Tiny BoBs. Peca's been MIA for months unfortunately. I can't see your video, do you have a link somewhere?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDGOQ0wDKc&feature=player_embedded

 

[Fzero]

Just adding the link for your vid as text in case Link can't see the embeds, I get this on the work proxy where YT embeds are blocked it's just a blank white area, perhaps his browser is just showing same?


youtube.com/watch?v=OpDGOQ0wDKc


Looks great on the telly btw, very nice

 

[Link]

Thanks for the links and such.


Nice video! Always good to see some skateboarders having fun too!

 

[JeFF]

Ahahaha sorry that was me, as I put my videos on sd cards and watch them ''on the go'' with my panda.

 

[skeezix]

I tried latest (from the repo) PanPlayer, and had no-show on TV-out.


Now I know my cable is good since main layer works, and picodrive works (which uses layer 2 for the emulation.) Quitting a game in Picodrive leaves the game on the TV while the desktop comes up .. so I know layer 2 works in general.


(Aside, I do find TV-out side audio to be really quiet, I almost need to get an in-line volume booster or something, for the RCA jacks.)


With Panplayer however, I get no video on the pandora side, and no video on the TV-out side, when TV0out is enabled (SuperZaxxon b5); if tv-out is disabled, panplayer works fine.


Switching to smplayer worked fine, since it renders on the main display. I don't recall on performance sats between smaplyer2 and panplayer, but I always liked panplayer; I don't think vlc cut the snuff yet, IIRC, but not tried latest.


Panplayer I updated via pndmanager, so possibly is botched the download or something, maybe I should try a fresh pull..


I do find it very interesting that panplayer didn't render atall when TV-out was enabled, but works fine otherwise. Thats a neat trick, I shoudl check the code and see whats up


Any tip to PanPlayer on TV-out?


jeff

 

[DrCJBoduma]

JeFF kindly sent me one of his TV-out cables and it arrived today, so to celebrate I made this very blurry youtube clip with it hooked up to my projector.


Enjoy (although probably not)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/j4vg3PGvoDA?feature=oembed

 

[JeFF]

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