G4Ti4600 DVI-I x PAL-M

Hi folks! I've got a G4Ti4600 DVI-I video card and I can't capture with PAL-M video standard. Does anyone knows if there is a driver somewhere that can enable this feature? TKS!

AndyU,
I since you have a GF4 and you posted in the nVidia/AMD/SiS Motherboard Forum, I moved the thread to Mutlimedia Forum for you.
Good Luck,
Richard

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G4 Ti4600 DVI-I x PAL-M

Hi folks! I've got a G4Ti4600 DVI-I video card and I can't capture with PAL-M video standard. Does anyone knows if there is a driver somewhere that can enable this feature? TKS!

AndyU,
I since you have a GF4 and you posted in the nVidia/AMD/SiS Motherboard Forum, I moved the thread to Mutlimedia Forum for you.
Good Luck,
Richard

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Hi all,
I have a rather awkward-to-explain specific question and I'm wondering if anyone knows enough about video to explain it...
I've recently been using my MacBook to play back video through the DVI port to my PAL TV (UK). I have the Mini DVI to video adapter.
The problem I am having is with video frame rates. If I play a PAL video through the MacBook (25fps), it seems to play it back on the TV with no problems. However, if I try to play any video that has a rate of 24fps, it *starts off* okay for maybe 5-10 minutes, but then the picture becomes really juddery and difficult to watch. If I am using video mirroring I notice that on the LCD screen, the video has started updating frames midway through a screen refresh (you can see a "ripple" running through the picture).
I do have a way round this problem at the moment... I burn them all to DVD using Toast. Unfortunately though this means about 12 hours of encoding for each DVD, not to mention that I'm getting through so many discs!!
The result of converting the videos to DVD is that every second there is a slight pause, but this is still miles better than the output from the MacBook directly to the TV.
Does any of the above make sense? Any ideas on how I can solve this little problem? Anyone? Thanks!
:-Joe

Yes it's PAL... I've tried all resolutions, both PAL and NTSC. Obviously all the colours are washed out on NTSC but both have the flicker problem
Like I say it's fine when running a PAL video - but if I play one recorded in 24fps (ie HD content, DVD content) then I get the flicker problem after a few minutes. Maybe it's something to do with the processing power? Although I can watch the videos fine on the LCD screen.
I've used Quicktime Player, VLC and Wide Screen Movie Player, all give me the same problem.
Maybe I should use this as an excuse to get an HDTV

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Hi, I've just bourght a Apple DVI to Video PAL edition to use with my tv, but the picture is in black & white.
Normal you get a black & white picture on the tv if you use ntsc stuff on european tv's, but it is a pal adaptor.
Any sugestions to solve the problem?

I've tried that, but it doesn't help.
Do you, in fact, see the option to select between NTSC and PAL in the Displays System Preferences? (Just to make sure everything is being detected correctly.)
Are you using an s-video cable or a composite video cable? Can you try a different cable and/or port on your TV?
-Doug

Apple PAL DVI to Video Adapter...

saw this in the uk store...
Apple PAL DVI to Video Adapter
i've just bought a MacBook 13", and wanna make use of front row.
theres no " PAL mini-DVI to Video Adapter " listed, will the other
ones work on a philips pal TV
cheers

Hopefully someone with direct experience will answer your question. In the mean time, I think the way this works is that the standard adapter will enable and allow you to select both NTSC and PAL timings, but it will default to NTSC as a starting point. That could be a problem if your TV won't run from NTSC because your screen will be scrambled and probably not legible enough for you to switch to a PAL timing. So that's what I think happens but, again, I hope someone else will answer this for you.

Apple DVI to Video Adapter vs Apple PAL DVI to Video Adapter

I've just bought my mum a Mac mini (for Christmas) and although it will almost certainly be mostly used with a VGA monitor she has it would be interesting to see what the picture would be like on her fairly new (CRT) television. (If it's good enough she might prefer it plugged in there - especially since I've also got her a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard - plus wireless networking for accessing the Internet et cetera.) The Apple Store (UK) shows two "suitable" connectors...
a) Apple DVI to Video Adapter
b) Apple PAL DVI to Video Adapter
My local Apple Store (Meadowhall / Sheffield) only has the former and someone I spoke to there yesterday reckoned that it does exactly the same as the latter. I found that hard to believe so called the online Apple Store - yet they couldn't tell me the difference either. So, perhaps someone out there in the Big Wide (European PAL System User) World can help me. If so then perhaps you could also tell me what the quality of the picture is like - though I appreciate that such would be dependant on the television itself.
Incidentally, my girlfriend has a current range iBook and I bought her the corresponding lead for that a while back - the image quality on my (admittedly aging) television not only being rather poor but also only in black and white regardless as to which of the two connections we used. (Her digital still camera plugs into the Composite Video port on the television and a colour picture appears.) The problem sounds like NTSC is being output (the television's not able to handle that) but given that she's got a "British" iBook I suspect the problem is with the television itself. I've actually yet to try that with my mum's television but I will soon - so, perhaps, proving if it's my antique display that's at fault. The VGA output on the iBook is, by the way, fine.
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I'm fairly sure you will need the PAL adapter if you are feeding a PAL television set. VGA is VGA, regardless of country of origin (so to speak), but composite video is specific to the TV system in use!
The other reply, about the setting the iBook for PAL output, sounds sensible if the IBook produces composite video directly.
-- Eric

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I just bought an apple dvi to analog video adapter to connect my mac mini to my tv.
It worked like a charm the first time, but seems to reset for no reason from ntsc to pal output. This is really annoying because the pal output is nearly impossible to read, making it painful to switch it back. It's weird because it boots into ntsc just fine and the login window looks good. But as soon as I log in from either account, it opens in pal. When I change it, it will change back over night.
I tried using both composite and s-video plugs. The TV is a sony wega xbr (US).

I assume you have the previous generation mini even though you have posted in the forum for the newer one. The newer one wouldn't work at all from the adapter you describe. Anyway...
...OS X's display preferences files may have corrupted somehow. Especially since it worked before and now it doesn't. That really sounds like a problem with the configuration of the Mac.
In /Library/Preferences is a file called com.apple.windowserver.plist. Navigate your way to it and throw it in the trash. Also, in your main user account (folder with your name on it) under ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost will also be found a file com.apple.windowserver.xxxxxxxxxx.plist where the xxxxx is a hexidecimal string. Throw that file in the trash, too. Now restart.
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Interestingly enough, none of the preferred suggested resolutions (i.e. those that show up in the menu-bar control - 640x480, 800x600 and 1680x1050) matches the native resolution of the TV (1366x768). In addition, they're all 60 Hz, whereas in Switzerland we use PAL / 50 Hz.
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I have a mac mini g4 (late 2005) and the pal video-adapter to connect this thing to my tv however I don't get a picture out of this on the tv. In the system preferences I don't have the choice to a pal setting but just 800x600 in different colors and 1024x768.
When the mac boots with tv connected (s-video cable) I see some flickering but nothing comes out of it.
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konstantin

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Unfortunately, when I went to the location I am giving the presentation and repeated the process of hooking up to their TV, I get a B/W distorted image on the television. The same distorted image comes up on a plasma screen they have on site as well.
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I've read a post (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2035086&#2035086) that recommends changing from NTSC to PAL (or vice versa) using the Displays panel, but mine does not have that option (am I in the wrong place?). The only options I have on the Displays Control Panel are Resolutions and Colors.
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Either way. You set if you want mirroring or two monitors in Display in System Preferences.

Display problems using mini-dvi to video adapter

I recently purchased the mini-dvi to video adapter for my powerbook to use my TV as a monitor and to play pictures and videos from the laptop to the TV. I am getting a full color display on the TV, but it's only the screen saver. None of my files, text, or any other desktop folders or menus appear when I open them up on the laptop. The only screen that opens is the display preferences when I open that up, but it's a different set of preferences than what's in my computer's display preferences, as it's header is "NTSC/PAL". But other than that 1 menu, nothing is appearing but the screen saver.

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As it happens, I just bought the mini-DVI to video connector for my wife's Macbook (C2D) yesterday. I am in Australia (which is a PAL country), but I didn't see anything on the device or the packaging which indicated it as being PAL-specific. In fact, in Display Preferences when it is connected to the Mac and TV and in use, the panel relating to the TV output (which is shown by the Mac on the TV screen) is where you select between PAL-50Hz and NTSC-60Hz, so I'd guess it is a single worldwide device, rather than their being separately-manufactured PAL and NTSC variants of the connector.
Anyway, on the back of the top cardboard part of the packaging is a picture of the connectors (because you cannot really see the pins in the Mini-DVI connector itself when packaged, due to an opaque plastic "keeper" over the end of the plug).
To reconfirm what is said above, the pin configuration on the mini-DVI port on the MacBook and what you need on the Mini-DVI connector is a horseshoe or "U" shape. I don't remember if any specific model of Mac is listed, but I believe as long as it is that U-shaped connector you'll be fine with the same connector kit.
The "mini-VGA to video" connector is not what you want for a MacBook; mini-VGA is not "U"-shaped inside, but rather two rows of pins in "II" configuration (even though the outside dimensions of mini-VGA and mini-DVI look very similar).
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As it happens, I just bought the mini-DVI to video connector for my wife's Macbook (C2D) yesterday. I am in Australia (which is a PAL country), but I didn't see anything on the device or the packaging which indicated it as being PAL-specific. In fact, in Display Preferences when it is connected to the Mac and TV and in use, the panel relating to the TV output (which is shown by the Mac on the TV screen) is where you select between PAL-50Hz and NTSC-60Hz, so I'd guess it is a single worldwide device, rather than their being separately-manufactured PAL and NTSC variants of the connector.
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To reconfirm what is said above, the pin configuration on the mini-DVI port on the MacBook and what you need on the Mini-DVI connector is a horseshoe or "U" shape. I don't remember if any specific model of Mac is listed, but I believe as long as it is that U-shaped connector you'll be fine with the same connector kit.
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ted.h.
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