On Saturday 26 November 2005 19:56, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:05:44PM +0000, Laz wrote:
> > This is probably a very long shot...
> >
> > Does anyone know if it's possible to convince the second head of a Matrox
> > G450 card to send out WSS signals in the output so that automatic 4:3 /
> > 16:9 switching of a TV can be used? I believe that WSS switching is
> > possible with dxr3 cards containing the adv7170 encoder but not those
> > with a bt865 encoder!
> >
> > Just wondering whether the hardware has the capability or not, or whether
> > it just hasn't been implemented yet or not!
>
> AFAIK the WSS signals occur during the horizontal blanking period
> (someone correct me if I'm wrong) so with the current setup they would
> have to encoded in the TV-encoder. There are no specs for the TV-encoder
>
> :(
>
> I once pondered about configuring CRTC2 so that there would be no
> blanking periods and instead set up the data in the memory to include
> the timing codes and whatnot. If the hardware would work with that kind
> of setup (of which I'm not so sure) you would have total control over
> the contents of the digital blanking periods. However even that would
> not guarantee anything because the TV-encoder might just ignore the
> data. But it might be an interesting thing to try nonetheless.

I thought that was probably the case.

Hmmmm...maybe I'll have a go at bodging something onto a serial port which 
uses the switching on the SCART socket instead...

:)

Cheers,

Laz

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