[vdr] VDR and HTPC was : A modular VDR.

[Patrick GUENEAU <pgueneau@wanadoo.fr>]

hi.

Mirko, i was thinking of such a feature.

We cannot have better quality from Satellite than using direct MPEG2
files recorded by VDR.

Can someone tell us more on Sigma Designs EM8400 chip support using
DVBAPI ? 

I know it not an opensource project but it would be nice to benefit from
this driver to adapt VDR.One idea i had was to change DVBAPI calls in
VDR for MPEG2 output by the same APIs Calls form the driver for this
chip.

This chip is supporting VGA+ YUV progressive signal and is allready used
by some HTPC users.

As this chip is allready found in NetStream 2000 TV card, and may be the
chip used in a future Hollywood+ card, it could be a very good solution.

I am more skeptical about porting DSCALER to Linux as it seems nobody as
yet taken the lead and is not for sure an easy task.


Am i dreaming too ?

Patrick Gueneau




Mirko Morschheuser wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> i really like that idea and brought it up here once:
> http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2001/10-2001/msg00416.html
> I think the low-quality TV-out is a big minus, but my main interest is using
> the VGA. Many people interested in VDR are also interested in Hifi and
> homecinema and have a projector or rear-projection-tv with VGA in. With a
> modular VDR it would be possible to do a "low budget" VDR with one DVB card
> and timeshifting. And for "high-end" users there would be the possibility to
> do deinterlacing and scaling in software and get the best progressive scan
> signal possible through VGA or even DVI. As mentioned before in this thread,
> deinterlacing is the main issue when displaying on a monitor or projector
> through VGA. the deinterlacing algorithms www.dscaler.org and the cpu
> "horsepower" is available. Just for information. One of the best
> videoprozessors/scalers on the market is "the rock from taw (i think
> >6.000$) wich is nothing else than a computer with a Nvidia GFX card running
> Linux and some modified deinterlacing algorithms from dscaler. (actually i
> dont have the TV-OUT problem as i have a fujitsu acticy 300 wich has a scart
> connector instead of a fbas tv-out :-)
> 
> cu
> Mirko "Psychonaut" Morschheuser
> 
> P.S.
> -dream modus on-
> with development going in this direction, we will soon have a multimedia,
> progressive scan DVD/DVB player, videoprozessor System wich is better than
> >25.000$ "freaky high-end" equipment. I really look forward to this. And
> thanks to the guys from convergence and Klaus.
> -dream modus off-