Simon Baxter wrote: >> That card works fine, in fact its recommended by many vdr users. Here is >> the scoop. >> >> The card does NOT do HDTV decoding in hardware. It will do it in >> software assuming the modulation is QPSK, (it does NOT support 8PSK >> commonly used for HDTV at least here) The card is used like a budget >> card if you are doing HDTV. >> >> The "j2" mod on that board is done incorrectly. It does NOT have the >> proper circuitry to work "out of the box", (It does NOT do component, >> only RGB). It is NOT terminated properly. It does post a risk of >> damaging the card if things are incorrectly wired. Correctly wired and >> terminated the RGB out works excellent. >> >> Any other questions? >> > > I'm confused. I thought component video was RGB? s-video uses luminance > and chrominance, component uses RGB - am I wrong? > Component video is "color difference", S video is very similar to component, as there is a Y(luminance) but there are 2 color signals instead of one (R and B), the "difference" between R and B, makes G. RGB contains much more video bandwidth then component video. Svideo cannot handle HDTV, Component and RGB can. > The SCART pinout says "RED/Chroma pin 15", "RED/Chroma GND pin 13", "Green > pin 11", "Green GND pin 9", "Blue pin 7", "Blue GND pin 5". > > How do you go about terminating the RBG from J2 properly? What can this be > connected to? > Usually you need the filters and the termination resistors, and depending on where you live, RGB devices may or may not be common. (Think SCART) > So the tuner will tune QPSK HDTV channels, which can be recorded or > displayed with vdr-xine or softdevice, but the MPEG decoder won't output > them. What's the best setup to use this then? Do you run vdr-xine or > softdevice all the time and ignore the FF bit - to support TV and HDTV? Or > just start vdr-xine when you tune to an HD channel? What does the MPEG > decoder output when tuned to HDTV? > Is there a better FF HDTV card with component/s-video MPEG decoder? > > > I have 3 DVB-s cards in one machine, 1 is a FF, the other 2 are budget. I run in softmode using softdevice 100% of the time. Even though I don't receive and HDTV at all, using the output of a VGA card into a LCD projector produces a much better picture. The advantage to the FF card, is that it will work in a slow computer as the card does all the work. Displaying HDTV will need a powerful computer. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > >
