> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:26:37 -0500
> From: Devin Heitmueller <[email protected]>
> [ . . . ]
> Ultimately this is a matter of priorities: [ . . . ]
You've sorta half missed my point here, which was probably my fault.
My point was -not- to browbeat Andy into fixing this possible
reversion---though I'll note he's already sent some debugging
info to the OP and maybe if it's a true reversion we'll hear
from others as well. (Plus all the recent traffic that implies
this might already have been fixed.)
My point is that, like the OP, I have a 350 driving S-Video to a CRT.
(It's using very old software that I have no intention of upgrading
until I go to VDPAU, or I'd try to reproduce the OP's issue.) I would
like to upgrade someday, but it's very difficult for analog-input CRT
people like myself. Flip answers like "just use VDPAU to S-Video"
ignore the problem that very few cards even have it.
The best alternative I've seen is the 8400GS, which supposedly will do
VDPAU and S-Video---but it's an old card, without the more powerful
feature sets, it's not clear how long it'll be around, and its power
envelope (and general thermal design) could be better. I'm SD-only at
the moment, but I'd like to transcode a large amount of video to X.264
at some point and play that using VDPAU. When I play that, I'd like
to use good deinterlacers and/or GPU decode support, because even at
SD I might otherwise need a fairly beefy frontend just to play the
video even if I'm not deinterlacing (e.g., if it's still going to a
CRT). And I'd like to be relatively sure that recent firmware won't
accidentaly break interlaced output, which I've occasionally heard.
If I have to dump S-Video, that means dumping a $2K CRT TV that is
working perfectly and takes every analog standard around (composite,
component, and S-Video), and replacing it with something that takes
digital inputs, is probably HD, and probably (therefore) doesn't
render SD content as nicely--- not to mention that I just like CRTs
better for video than LCDs anyway. It also means replacing a whole
bunch of furniture, too. So I'm really not wild about switching away
from S-Video output until and unless I go to HD display.
[Or, trying out the quality of HDMI-to-S-Video converters, which cost
between $90-$300 or so, which is pretty damned pricey.]
So that's why I asked---since you seemed so confident that this was a
viable alternative, I was hoping you had a rabbit in your hat that I
hadn't seen yet. I wish you had. It's a pity that supporting analog
that's been around for more than half a century isn't worth doing when
the gamer crowd all has LCDs and that's what everyone's pushing now,
but oh well.
So take this as it was intended: a semi-off-topic plea for people to
mention good S-Video alternatives for people who still need analog
outputs (S-Video, composite, or component---in my case, I can use any).
Thanks.
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