The technical specification page of the Vero V lists video output via CVBS in standard definition 480i/576i. Is this actually supported?
Could I hook up the Vero V to an SD CRT television set to playback DVD or VHS content? And if so, does this also include support for the OSMC GUI in 480i?
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It worked last time I looked. Output is 576p or 480p. I can check if you haven’t got a Vero to test. Not on a CRT though.
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Yes, it should be working just fine.
@grahamh spent a lot of time on the hardware as the default AMLogic spec gets things the wrong way around for standard cables.
That was the audio. Video should be right if you have the right cable. You need an OMTP cable as explained here
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Please, if you could check whenever you have the time.
I’m assuming your display deinterlaces the 480i/576i signal to 480p/576p.
But if this works, including properly scaled GUI at 4:3 resolution, it would make the Vero the only modern media player hardware that supports such a thing, and on top of features like eARC or Dolby Vision mkvs (which not even my Oppo can handle correctly).
The Vero sounds like the perfect media player for all my use cases, the obscure ones included 
It turns out “last time I looked” must have been at least 5 years ago. CVBS needs to be interlaced and we stopped supporting interlaced output back then. I can’t remember exactly why. We’re just checking see if it’s something that’s easily restored.
I just found a post of yours from two years ago in a somewhat related thread, which offers an explanation for why interlaced support was eventually dropped. I’m assuming it still applies?
Thanks for finding that. I think 2020 must’ve been when we moved from the 3.14 kernel up to 4.9. We are scratching our heads to see if there’s a quick fix but you can see there’s not been much interest in CVBS recently. Even that thread you found wasn’t about CVBS, the user was taking HDMI and converting to VGA.
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No worries, it is very niche after all.
I also found a thread on Reddit where someone created a CRT streaming box / media player using OSMC on a Pi3. An all-in-one solution would be nice, but I suppose this might be a viable alternative for anyone who is interested in such a feature, if you can’t easily get it working on the Vero V.