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khiraly | 1 Jul 2004 12:10
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Re: Where is the 'swap_redblue_pal=1' option?

Hi Nicolas!

Thx for your reponse, pixeldata_adjust_pal=3 option worked fine.

I write my experience, maybe it would be great to include some
information about this in the documentation:
pixeldata_adjust_pal=1
The red and blue color are swapped in Mplayer and freevo too.

pixeldata_adjust_pal=0
The red and blue color are swapped in Freevo. Mplayer runs the film
correctly unless I dont fastforward in the film. If I fastforward in the
film the colors are swapped randomly. 

pixeldata_adjust_pal=3
Work great freevo and Mplayer.

Cheers, 
 Khiraly

2004-06-28, h keltezéssel 23:38-kor Nicolas Boullis ezt írta:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:51:20PM +0200, khiraly wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a big problem:-|
> > 
> > The red and blue colors on my TV are swapped. Both when I play back the
> > films with mplayer or when I use freevo.
> > 
> > Freevo appear all the time in reddish. But the films sometime(~1/10
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Nicolas Boullis | 2 Jul 2004 01:29
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Re: Where is the 'swap_redblue_pal=1' option?

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:10:39PM +0200, khiraly wrote:
> Hi Nicolas!
> 
> Thx for your reponse, pixeldata_adjust_pal=3 option worked fine.
> 
> I write my experience, maybe it would be great to include some
> information about this in the documentation:
> pixeldata_adjust_pal=1
> The red and blue color are swapped in Mplayer and freevo too.
> 
> pixeldata_adjust_pal=0
> The red and blue color are swapped in Freevo. Mplayer runs the film
> correctly unless I dont fastforward in the film. If I fastforward in the
> film the colors are swapped randomly. 

Are you sure it just does not work or fail randomly?

> pixeldata_adjust_pal=3
> Work great freevo and Mplayer.

Nicolas

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Nicolas Boullis | 3 Jul 2004 23:43
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Re: xine problems when closing the SPU device

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:30:24PM +0200, Martin Soto wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:43, HÃ¥kon Skjelten wrote:
> > What is by the way the status of the current SPU code? Does anybody use it?
> 
> The subpicture unit? I'm using it for sure. I'm writing a GStreamer
> based DVD player that should provide pretty good support for the DXR3.
> Since I'm using the TV out at home, I use the SPU unit for the
> subtitles. Works fine for me so far.
> 
> There's a detail however that has been bugging me (and that seems to
> also be a problem for Xine as far as I've seen): I can find a way to
> reset the subpicture unit. That means, when a subpicture is displayed,
> you have to wait until the display time runs out in order to display the
> next one. This is a problem when changing chapters, for example, because
> the last subtitle remains there for a second or two while the new
> chapter is already playing. There is a reset ioctl that should work for
> the SPU unit, but it seems not to have any effect. Not a big issue, but
> annoying at times.

Hmmm, what do you mean by "There is a reset ioctl (...)"? Where did you 
find that ioctl?

And does anyone have an idea how one can reset the SPU unit?

Nicolas,
who really lacks time for em8300...

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Tim McCoy | 4 Jul 2004 01:43
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H+ and Desktop display

Hey there,

Some nice work on this project - well done! I was recently given a PC 
with a DXR3 card, and have been playing with it on my holiday. I seem to 
have managed to build the modules properly, although I don't yet have 
anything displaying on it. I'm about to build MPlayer and try for video 
out, but my question is - can the PC desktop (i.e. X) be displayed using 
the TV-Out with these cards, or is it specifically for MPEG decoding and 
display only? I'd love to be able to use this PC as a home theatre PC, 
but I'm not familiar with the capabilities of these cards.

I look forward to reporting some good news soon!

Cheers

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Jure Peèar | 4 Jul 2004 01:57

Re: H+ and Desktop display

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:43:08 +1000
Tim McCoy <tmccoy <at> swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> Some nice work on this project - well done! I was recently given a PC 
> with a DXR3 card, and have been playing with it on my holiday. I seem to 
> have managed to build the modules properly, although I don't yet have 
> anything displaying on it. I'm about to build MPlayer and try for video 
> out, but my question is - can the PC desktop (i.e. X) be displayed using 
> the TV-Out with these cards, or is it specifically for MPEG decoding and 
> display only? I'd love to be able to use this PC as a home theatre PC, 
> but I'm not familiar with the capabilities of these cards.
> 
> I look forward to reporting some good news soon!

MPEG only.
You can't really get your X desktop to the TV with this card, but there are
other nice apps to use your pc in a ht setup, such as
http://mms.sunsite.dk/.

If you really want to have X on TV, i'd suggest finding a matrox
g400/450/550 card and having a look at www.directfb.org.

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Jure Peèar | 4 Jul 2004 02:02

Re: stretching question (Re: [PATCH] New mode for cropping borders from 4:3 video sent as 16:9)

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:18:53 +0100
Jon Burgess <mplayer <at> jburgess.uklinux.net> wrote:

> Ariel Manzur wrote:
> 
> > is it possible to 'un stretch' the picture?
> 
> Yes it is, a fair amount of the normal picture content is beyond the 
> borders of a normal TV display.
> 
> Just start try playing around with the co-ordinates in the 
> em8300_dicom.c tvmode structure and you should be able to figure out 
> what you need to do to get the output that you want.

I took some time today and played with these numbers ... it's amazing to
find out that my TV eats more than 10% of the picture. Sigh ...

A friend demonstrated me his hacked xbox some time ago and it has a nice
capability to 'adapt' the size of the image on the fly. Could this be done
with dxr3 too? I'm sure these numbers could be made configurable and some
support to change them could be added to mplayer/xine/whatever, but, can
hardware deal with it?

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Tim McCoy | 4 Jul 2004 04:04
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[Fwd: H+ and Desktop display]

Hi again,

Okay, so building the kernel module has worked (but with an unresolved 
symbol...) and I can insert and get some video output!

I only get Black and White though, using the SVideo output and PAL 
video. In reading the FAQ, I'm thinking that it may be the 4-pin 
SVHS-RCA adapter that I'm using, but I'm not 100% sure... Maybe someone 
can shed some light on it (or even some colour)? I tried using the 
TV-Out (RCA) connector, but no luck. I use the same TV (and cable) from 
my main desktop, using NVIDIA TwinView (GeForce4) for movie playback, 
and haven't had any issues there.

I have tried playing with the module parameters, but no sucess. The 
picture quality seems great, so I'm just missing one piece of the puzzle 
here. Using em8300-dhc doesn't seem to help much - changing PAL modes 
still results in BW video. I've only ever seen something similar from 
the NVIDIA drivers - I am currently using "PAL-B" - is there a way to 
switch it?

Debian Sid (em8300, em8300-source em8300-bin em8300-headers)
Linux 2.4.22 (custom kernel)
Hollywood Plus (Rev 2.0, Video chipset: ADV7170)

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Nicolas Boullis | 5 Jul 2004 00:35
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Re: [Fwd: H+ and Desktop display]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +1000, Tim McCoy wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Okay, so building the kernel module has worked (but with an unresolved 
> symbol...) and I can insert and get some video output!
> 
> I only get Black and White though, using the SVideo output and PAL 
> video. In reading the FAQ, I'm thinking that it may be the 4-pin 
> SVHS-RCA adapter that I'm using, but I'm not 100% sure... Maybe someone 
> can shed some light on it (or even some colour)? I tried using the 
> TV-Out (RCA) connector, but no luck. I use the same TV (and cable) from 
> my main desktop, using NVIDIA TwinView (GeForce4) for movie playback, 
> and haven't had any issues there.

I don't know how nvidia does this, but this may be the cause of your 
problem...

Normally, S-video is luma + chroma signals separated, while video 
composite is luma + chroma merged.

Some cards, instead of outputing real S-video output send video 
composite + chroma. This works quite fine as an svideo signal, as the 
chroma part of the composite signal does not interfere too badly with 
the luma part. And then, to get video composite out of such a thing, one 
only has to take the "luma" part of it.

Now what about your DXR3/H+ card? Well, it uses a non-standard 7-pin 
connector, where 4 of those pins match the standard 4-pin S-video 
connector, and the extra ones are used to send video composite (well, 
there's one too many pin, but I don't know why...). Now, if you extract
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David Holm | 6 Jul 2004 13:54
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Re: [Fwd: H+ and Desktop display]


On Monday 05 July 2004 00.35, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:04:34PM +1000, Tim McCoy wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Okay, so building the kernel module has worked (but with an unresolved
> > symbol...) and I can insert and get some video output!
> >
> > I only get Black and White though, using the SVideo output and PAL
> > video. In reading the FAQ, I'm thinking that it may be the 4-pin
> > SVHS-RCA adapter that I'm using, but I'm not 100% sure... Maybe someone
> > can shed some light on it (or even some colour)? I tried using the
> > TV-Out (RCA) connector, but no luck. I use the same TV (and cable) from
> > my main desktop, using NVIDIA TwinView (GeForce4) for movie playback,
> > and haven't had any issues there.
>
> I don't know how nvidia does this, but this may be the cause of your
> problem...
>
> Normally, S-video is luma + chroma signals separated, while video
> composite is luma + chroma merged.
>
> Some cards, instead of outputing real S-video output send video
> composite + chroma. This works quite fine as an svideo signal, as the
> chroma part of the composite signal does not interfere too badly with
> the luma part. And then, to get video composite out of such a thing, one
> only has to take the "luma" part of it.
>
> Now what about your DXR3/H+ card? Well, it uses a non-standard 7-pin
> connector, where 4 of those pins match the standard 4-pin S-video
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Adam Nielsen | 9 Jul 2004 11:45
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Re: [Fwd: H+ and Desktop display]

> I'm not so sure that it is non-standard. Apple is using the same
> pin-out on powerbooks. Which might explain the number of pins, if it's
> a standard the extra pin might have some use on certain hardware.

IIRC this pin is actually connected to the ADV717x on my H+, it's just
that all the video outputs are fine without it (Composite, S-Video and
RGB.)  Actually, I think the extra pin was used as another composite
output - which normally wouldn't make much sense, but in RGB mode it
would - you have signals for Red, Green, Blue and composite (perhaps to
use as sync?)  ...I really should spend some more time fiddling with RGB
output ;-)

Cheers,
Adam.

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