Re: [PATCH] V4L/DVB: tvp5150: COMPOSITE0 input should not force-enable TV mode

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Em 09-10-2010 09:33, Devin Heitmueller escreveu:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> When digitizing composite video from a analog videotape source using the
>> TVP5150's first composite input channel, the captured stream exhibits
>> tearing and synchronization problems[1].
>>
>> It turns out that commit c0477ad9feca01bd8eff95d7482c33753d05c700 caused
>> "TV mode" (as opposed to "VCR mode" or "auto-detect") to be forcibly
>> enabled for both composite inputs.  According to the chip
>> documentation[2], "TV mode" disables a "chrominance trap" input filter,
>> which appears to be necessary for high-quality video capture from an
>> analog videotape source.  [ Commit
>> c7c0b34c27bbf0671807e902fbfea6270c8f138d subsequently restricted the
>> problem to the first composite input, apparently inadvertently. ]
> 
> FYI:  This isn't a newly discovered issue:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg13869.html

Yeah. I basically asked people to do more tests, but never got any feedback
about that issue. Provided that it won't break anything, I'm ok on merging
it.

Cheers,
Mauro
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