[vdr] Re: Interlacing

[Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>]

In <417FA0A0.8010009@users.sourceforge.net>, Lucian Muresan wrote:

> FYI:
> Luckily there is such functionality in DFB, and indeed for 
> G400/G450/G550 TV-OUT, see 
> http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~peti/directfb/matrox-tv-out-howto (it's 
> mentioned in the first paragraph of the introduction of this howto).
> Also, the DFB matrox-driver and applications using it (mplayer for 
> example) make use of the ability to set the field order.

Some disadvantages with Matrox:

AFAIK the TV-out doesn't work with X, at least not with the mga driver,
but it might be possible to do something with X's vesafb driver.

Last time I looked, none of the Matrox cards available at reasonable
prices on eBay included TV-out.

The above HOWTO mentions kernel patches for 2.4.*, so the situation with
2.6 is unknown to me at present. Other guides say a closed binary HAL is
needed, which I was never able to find for download.

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