On Tuesday 06 June 2006 13:50, Nick Rosier wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hans,
>
> what happens with the PALplus information? IIRC it's used in Belgium
> for the VRT-channels and probably some others. Can the ivtv-driver
> translate the information into e.g. an anamorphic image?
It's discarded. I very much doubt that this information can be used in
any way. From what I remember the extra info is encoded in the U and V
samples in the black borders and I assume all that info is lost when
the MPEG encoder processes it: it no doubt sees it as all black and
optimizes it away.
Hans
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