On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:00:20 -0800 Warren Nagourney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:15 AM, David Seikel wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:59:17 -0000 "Paul Baxter" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> FWIW > >> > >> HDCP is required for using a monitor with Linux *from the HDMI* > >> output. Nothing to stop you using alternatives (component) without > >> HDCP. Perhaps that's what David is doing with his LCD panel. > >> > >> Less sure on the PS3 game OS; you may be able to not have the HDCP > >> restriction with HDMI except with Blu-Ray disks requiring content > >> protection. > > > > Component video through a component to VGA transcoder at 720p is > > what I'm currently using. Works fine on the GameOS as well. I > > dunno about content protected Blu-Ray disks, I don't have any. The > > Talladega Nights Blu-Ray disk that comes with the PS3 works better > > in 720p than most DVDs do. No de interlacing artifacts, and no > > compression artifacts that I can spot. > > > > On the other hand, kboot runs at 480i, and my component solution > > doesn't work for my monitor at 480i. I can pass that via composite > > through my TV card and then to a TV program running on my other > > computer. It's hardly usable though. S-Video should work slightly > > better, but I don't have a PS3 to S-Video cable. > > > > I haven't finished experimenting yet, I may come up with a better > > solution. > > > > It does boil down to many ways of getting video out of the PS3, and > > many types of monitor with varied restrictions at either end, and > > sometimes restrictions in the middle. Suck it and see, if it > > doesn't work, try something else. > > Could you please be a little more specific about your configuration? > I saw on the web a device from Vdigi electronics which claims to do > what you describe but mentions only the PS2 in its manual (the ad > mentions the PS3). I assume you obtained a component cable for the > PS3 as well (the cable which comes with the PS3 is only composite > video). The total cost of these two devices is about $100, which is Yes, I am using the Vdigi transcoder device, but I am using it with a PS2 component cable. As I said above, I'm still experimenting, I have a feeling I will find a better solution. > a little high. I might try exchanging my Samsung 940BW for a 940B > which is supposedly HDCP compliant and use the HDMI port as I am > doing now. Having a HDCP capable monitor is probably the way to go to get the best out of the PS3. Especially if it can handle all the resolutions that a PS3 can display. > I assume that with analogue video, your monitor can display the > image without scaling (with a border around the image in most cases)? Scaling will be monitor / TV dependant. Some will scale, some will letterbox. Mine scales.
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