On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:
> The cx25840 module code has been reorganized, but the reorganization
> should not have mucked witht these values at all.
>
> I can tell you that I have done major rework of the VBI line settings in
> the cx18 driver that you may find inseresting.  The A/V digitizer in the
> CX23418 is *extremely* similar to the stand alone CX25843.
>
> Anyway, if you look in linux/driver/media/video/cx18/, the files
>
>        cx18-av-core.c and cx18-av-vbi.c
>
> should look very similar to
>
>        cx25840-core.c and cx25840-vbi.c
>
> in linux/drivers/media/video/cx25840/ except with updated values for
> NTSC and comments that you may find helpful.
>
> The problem with putting the "right" values in the cx25840 module, is
> that the changes will ripple through the VBI handling in the ivtv
> module.
>
> For the cx18 module, changes in cx18-av-*c, for VBI, rippled through
>
>        cx18-driver.h cx18-streams.c and cx18-vbi.c
>
> in a non-trivial manner.
>
> I did a lot of research and experimenting to figure out how then encoder
> was packing in the raw samples (for both sliced and raw VBI) from the
> digitizer.  The important thing is a) capturing the right amount of
> lines and b) knowing the number of the first line the encoder is sending
> you as VBI when you twiddle the line count values in cx25840-*.c
> digitizer setup.
>
> I needed a copy of the VESA VIP 2 standard (which has BT.656 field
> diagarms in it) to figure it all out. :P
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>

Interesting.  It sounds like at the very least it would be worth
trying a test install onto a USB thumb drive to see if anything
changes in my setup.

Thanks,

Jim

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