[mythtv-users] Having problems / Need info on BOB Deinterlacing

[Steve Hodge]

On 6/2/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/2/06, James Buckley <james at logicland.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Now that I found out the dot clock, vertical
> > > refresh...  from the X log, I used the XFree86 Modeline Generator (found
> > > here: http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl), to generate a
> > > modeline that gives a 60Hz refresh (same as PAL TV).
> >
> > PAL TV is not 60Hz - it's 50Hz. If you got an improvement going from
> > 75 to 60Hz you should try to get a 50Hz modeline to work - it might
> > improve further.
>
> Yes, Raw PAL is 50Hz. However, some PAL TV's support "PAL 60", for
> playback of NTSC content (From DVDs and the like). It still uses the
> PAL colourspace, but refreshes at 60Hz rather than 50. If you hear
> your TV jump and the picture seems a little more "Liney" (Like there's
> a scanline effect on the image), chances are you're running @ PAL60.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about PAL60. Still, when people say PAL they
almost always mean 50Hz PAL.

Steve