Hans Verkuil wrote:

>On Monday 05 June 2006 13:29, Steven Ellis wrote:
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>>Hans Verkuil wrote:
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>>>On Monday 05 June 2006 03:40, Steven Ellis wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Is there any support for de-ghosting signals within the IVTV
>>>>tuners? A number of the tv stations in NZ include the extra
>>>>information to help de-ghost a signal which would improve
>>>>reception on a couple of channels quite considerably.
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>>>>
>>>That's probably for widescreen transmissions I guess? Anyway, to my
>>>knowledge there is no support for that. And I don't think it is
>>>possible to add it. I don't believe either the saa7115 or the
>>>cx2584x support something like that.
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>>Actually the carrier is part of some standard 4:3 PAL signals here in
>>NZ. Due to geographic issues (NZ has an abundance of geography)
>>severe ghosting is common. You can get units that will de-ghost a
>>single channel, but then you need to feed the composite input into
>>your MythTV box which is a pain. If the IVTV cards understood the
>>signal they could handle it automatically. Didn't know if there were
>>any undocumented additions to the denoise filters.
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>Do you have a pointer to some description of the signal? I only know 
>about the PALplus standard for widescreen transmissions where the black 
>bars above and below the picture contain extra information.
>
>Could it be that it isn't extra information but special deghosting 
>hardware? I know that several Japanese MPEG cards have special chips 
>that do this (those are supported by ivtv).
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There is a reference at
http://portal.etsi.org/radio/AnalogueTVBroadcasting/ATVB.asp if you
search on GCR.

Don't know the details. I just have some customers with IVTV cards and
really badly ghosted signals that i'm trying to help

Steve

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