On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Jim Stichnoth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I installed MythDora 10.21 onto a spare hard drive, but there were no
changes in the cropping behavior (as I think everyone here suspected).

Jim

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