On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:09:10 +0200 "Theunis Potgieter" theunis.potgieter@gmail.com wrote:
What ever happened to RGB PAL output patch? According to that you don't need a deinterlacer, just a pc of hardware that converts the d-sub/vga connector to RGB if I'm not mistaken.
Patch for what? The trouble with that is most graphics cards generate a vblank interrupt on every field without distinguishing whether it's a top field or a bottom field so the player application only has a 50% chance of syncing to the correct field, and getting it wrong looks disastrous. Matrox G4x0 and G5x0 cards are the exception, their second output can be hooked up to a TV and provide separate top and bottom field interrupts, but only DirectFB supports it. That's what I'd been using until I upgraded to an LCD TV last month.