[mythtv] 16/9 vs 4/3 dilemma.

Steven Cruysberghs steven.cruysberghs at tiscali.be
Mon May 24 15:39:42 EDT 2004


Op ma 24-05-2004, om 20:40 schreef Stephen Davies:
> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Jon Burgess wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Davies wrote:
> > 
> > >How do you get that signal included in the TV-out of a PC?
> > >  
> > >
> > 1) Locate the TV Out chip on the hardware that you have
> >    - Probably a smallish IC made by Brooktree (BT), Conexant, VIA or 
> > similar. May be displayed in the driver debug output or source.
> > 2) Find the datasheet for the chip
> > 3) Find the bit that needs to be poked to turn on the WSS signal
> > 4) Add code to driver to turn on signal at the right time
> 
> Well - I'm the guy who put proper PAL 720x576 and NTSC 720x480 mode
> support into the BT869 driver for the Voodoo card - so I'm not
> entirely ignorant.
> 
> That chip, at least, did not support WSS generation.
> 
> My Asus Pundit doesn't seem to support it either.  At least Thomas'
> driver for the SIS chip has no support.
> 
> Which cards have chips that DO support WSS?
> 
there was talk of this on the IVTV list last week about the PVR350 tvout
supporting it. Look at the bottom of this mail
http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/May-2004/msg00393.html



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