Intro
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Important: never use this program on a PC which is not a
MediaPortal, otherwise it may damage your hardware!
A MediaPortal is a SetTopBox with a DVB-s or DVB-c card
and a DVD drive which enables you to watch digital TV
or DVDs/CDs, etc.

For more information about the MediaPortal, visit the site
http://www.helmutauer.de/mp/


Purpose
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The purpose of tvout is to enable the FS450 TV-out chip on the
Mediaportal Hardware to view the VGA output on a normal TV screen. 
To switch the first scart output of a MediaPortal 
(the output marked with "TV") from the normal VGA-output to the 
output of the DVB-s or DVB-c card you need a small tool
called mp-switch-video from Michael Dreher.

How does it work?
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See http://www.helmutauer.de/mp/download/FS450v12.zip for details
on the FS450/451 chip.
Install the FS450 lowlevel driver with the provided install script.
Find attached some sample shell scripts for default modes.
To view the options of tvout you can type ./tvout --help.
Go to http://www.f27.parsimony.net/forum66212/ for further help.
 
Credits
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The guys from Focus Enhancement for providing sample source for the FS450.
 
Michael Dreher for the excellent mp-switch-video tool and good luck for your
other project.  I am too lazy to implement your code into my work and also 
(as you can see in this README) to write READMEs.
 
Helmut Auer for running and updating his MediaPortal site 
(http://www.helmutauer.de/mp/). 
 
