I hope the subject line was descriptive enough. I got a G400 Marvel for Xmas, thanks to my brother. :-) With this card, I can hardware capture field-correct MJPEG, which I can then transcode into MPEG2, all using the wonderful tools of the mjpeg-tools project.
Why do you all care? :-) Well, for those of you following my G400 CRTC2 stuttering saga (hi Ville!), because I am now able to record interlaced data and create interlaced MPEG2 files from any source I wish now. Previously I was limited to MPEG2 sources I could download. So I have made several recordings of my favorite stutter/judder test site, CNN (with it's horzontal smooth scrolling news ticker) and am getting a better handle on exactly what the problems are that I am seing. Just to note, I was seeing the problem I am about to describe with live television broadcast viewing via tvtime and it's DirectFB CRTC2 support, but was not sure that this problem was not a bug in tvtime. I don't think it is any more. What seems to be happening is that the interlacing parity of the display seems to be fading in and out. That is, at some point the order of the odd/even lines is correct, and then it's not and then it is, and then it's not and so on and so on. I see this most remarkedly with the CNN scrolling banner. While, in general, it scrolls nice and smooth, for a few moments the letters will be nicely formed and then for a few moments they will be displayed in reverse polarity. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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