Not to mention, I think these cards have full MPEG decoding built in, but its not available from the current LInux driver. AFAIK anyway... Brian
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:13 am, Blair wrote: > True. Just keep in mind that nVidia only has designed "initial" ( read > "basic" ) support for this card in their current linux drivers (6629). My > TV only recognizes 480i and 1080i so I use those. I do not currently have > access to any of the deinterlacing features "Built In" to the chip set. If > leveraged they could offload the impact of deinterlacing operations from > the host CPU. Presumably, when these features finally become available > from X directly, we could disable de-interlacing from myth and probably get > much better performance for frames per second, motion compensation and > such. > > On Monday 14 February 2005 22:44, Brian Foddy wrote: > > On Monday 14 February 2005 11:15 pm, Blair wrote: > > > Just in case; > > > > > > Hey Brad, It just occurred to me that folks might not realize that with > > > this latest generation of nVidia Cards, a new set of TV formats have > > > been implemented as options for the TV Out port on the cards. You may > > > now do stuff like; > > > > > > Option "TVStandard" "HD480i" or > > > Option "TVStandard" "HD1080i" or any of the other HDTV output formats > > > > > > It is possible that there is some sort of scan converter onboard the > > > card but I don't know tis for a fact. For example, the TVOne box > > > ($250) that I mentioned earlier takes a 1600x1200 signal and creates a > > > 1080i (or whatever) output format. The 6 series cards look > > > suspiciously familier in this regard. > > > > > > -Blair > > > > Interesting, one of the long-running problems I've always faced > > with my Hitachi RP 43" TV, is that despite the fact its a native > > 1080i tv, and will take a 720p signal as well. The STB works fine > > in either mode. The strange part, I have never been able to > > drive it to 1080i from X, the tv sees it as a 480p signal which > > it can't sync up to. But with a 720p setting, it works great. > > I have check and rechecked all the modeline settings for 1080i, > > but it just never syncs up. > > > > This of course, leads to some blockiness in fast moving > > HD content since its down sampling a 1080i native to > > 720p before sending to the TV. Eventually I'd like > > to solve this problem. Now if a new card has better 1080i > > support built in, maybe there is a possibility there. > > > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
