Vista, Nvidia, force composite output.
This is a really silly problem, but it's driving me a little mad. Basically, I have a media center PC connected to a TV via a composite to Scart cable. However, with the NVidia Vista drivers my connection is detected as 'S-video'. This is all well and good (better picture quality apparently) but if the PC outputs S-video I get a black and white picture on my TV. In the XP drivers, you could force it to composite by selecting it froma drop down list. However in Vista it rather cleverly (and annoyingly) forces you to use S-video (better picture quality). I can fool it by going into the 'TV signal section of the Nvidia control panel, unplugging my cable and then selecting composite output (if the drivers don't detect a cable it lets you select anything) then plugging the cable back in. However, this is a pain as I have to switch on my other display (a projector) to see the drop down list while my TV is unplugged, and it reverts to S-video whenever I reboot. So, anyone know a way to force the output to composite even if it'd detected as S-video?
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Good summary of the current situation.
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