What is the relationship between the MPEG (/dev/video0) and YUV
(/dev/video32) outputs for ivtv-based cards? Is the YUV output providing
digitized but not yet compressed video data or does it only demux then
decompress the MPEG video stream from the iVTC chip and convert it to
HM12?

I am asking this as the quality of the YUV stream is not the same if it
is the result of a simple A/D conversion process or it is a transcoded
form of the MPEG signal (where information is already lost at the stage
of conversion to the MPEG-2 format). In the former case a capture into
HuffYUV would preserve all the information, while the latter case would
mean this is superfluous since the information content is basically the
same that of the MPEG stream.

Levente



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