Mailing List archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[vdr] Re: font
Mike Pieper wrote:
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:08 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: font
>
>
> On Friday 05 April 2002 19:05, you wrote:
> > You forget one (IMHO very important) thing: output quality.
> There may
> > be lots of graphic-cards with TV-Out, but I've seen none that comes
> > even close to the TV-Out-quality of the DVB-S, at least not under
> > those cheap ones you talk about.
> I agree to you.
>
> Only two problems remain: 1.) The size of the picture. I was
> not able to
> generate the overscan areas. With a correctly set up TV-set
> this should be no
> problem, though. 2.) Synchronisation: The DVB-out is
> synchronized with the
> MPEG decoder or perhaps free running and the decoder is
> synchronized against
> the TV-out. This is a dedicated process, running on in the
> firmware of the
> card. To control a graphics card in that way is difficult.
Another downside of using the tv-out will be the loss of the Videotext
capability, AFAIK there is no Tv-out on any graphics card that can send
VT information in the overscan aerea.
Cu Ulrich
Home |
Main Index |
Thread Index