Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:07:57PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > It looks like the patch references a version of the driver that > supports OPTION_RENDERACCEL, but v 2.3.2 doesn't support that. Which > version of the driver is the patch for? as described in http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thre

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 22 Jan 2009, at 21:12, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 21 Jan 2009, at 15:02, Thomas Hilber wrote: patch version II: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=769703#post769703 I tried patching the i810 driver that comes with fedora 9, which i use, but I'm getting patching file ./sr

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Jan 2009, at 15:02, Thomas Hilber wrote: patch version II: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=769703#post769703 I tried patching the i810 driver that comes with fedora 9, which i use, but I'm getting patching file ./src/i830_driver.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 319. Hunk #2 FAI

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-22 Thread Morfsta
> Thomas Hilber wrote: > >> Maybe some day FrameRateControl will allow for a pure open source HDTV >> solution. Running with adequate picture quality on moderately powered >> CPUs. I think it is very important for HDTV without any other solution. One of my main reasons for buying a eHD was that w

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:35:00 +0100 Thomas Hilber wrote: > Maybe some day FrameRateControl will allow for a pure open source HDTV > solution. Running with adequate picture quality on moderately powered > CPUs. Yes, hopefully one day Intel will have a fully operational VA or something, including

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:03:37PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: > It is excellent, but I can't help thinking it's come a bit too late. not if it comes to HDTV. Basically it should be feasible to recycle some of the ideas there. BTW I wanted to prove that simple graphics hardware together with low

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:07:40PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > I think someone should step ahead and help with the english docs.. > unfortunately I can't do that atm, too busy with other things.. after travelling over 5 weeks in Australia this now is my major problem too:-) _

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:55:19PM +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > Is the below rough summary correct ? > > What it currently is : > * a patch set to DRM kernel modules, xine-lib and xineliboutput ...not to forget the Xserver-DDX (hardware specific module) itself. For pre-avivo Radeons you need

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:07:40 +0200 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 06:02:23AM +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: > > > > It seems German related sites show more interest in VGA2SCART things. So > > I did not spend further time to translate all things I developed for > > VGA2SCART into

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 06:02:23AM +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: > > It seems German related sites show more interest in VGA2SCART things. So > I did not spend further time to translate all things I developed for > VGA2SCART into english. Sorry for that;-) > I think there's demand for this functi

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Thomas Hilber a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:23:59PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: >> There's no english howto anywhere? > > sorry, not yet. Is the below rough summary correct ? What it currently is : * a patch set to DRM kernel modules, xine-lib and xineliboutput * that adds proper interl

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:23:59PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > Ok, I have this hardware; > http://www.silentpcreview.com/article311-page1.html an asus mainboard > i915ga-hfs, with 915G graphics and onboard YPbPr and DVI outputs. I figure > with some tweaking, it should be possible to run pu

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Jan 2009, at 16:17, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:22:15PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: Does it work with 915 hardware as well? Yup, a few days ago I successfully testet the patch on my Asus EEE 701. Even replaying interlaced SD content the 900MHz CPU idles at about

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:22:15PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > Does it work with 915 hardware as well? Yup, a few days ago I successfully testet the patch on my Asus EEE 701. Even replaying interlaced SD content the 900MHz CPU idles at about 60%. Please see table at http://www.vdr-portal.de/bo

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Jan 2009, at 15:02, Thomas Hilber wrote: > > This way you now can build very cheap budget VDRs based on modern > hardware > like Intel D945GCLF/D945GCLF2 or Pundit P5945GC. With SCART output > quality > equaling a FF card but at fractional cost. Does it work with 915 hardware as well?

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:21:53PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: > Varying the output frame rate to keep in sync with the input stream is > very clever, but I don't understand how it solves the problem of > distinguishing between top and bottom fields to sync to. surely you can distinguish top and b

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Ville Aakko
2009/1/20 Tony Houghton : > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:19:49 +0200 > "Ville Aakko" wrote: > >> 1) You need to enable sync on vblanck. > > [Snip] > >> The first is not possible on all drivers (i.e. fglrx). > > Absolutely not possible? I know OpenGL, DRI and NVidia drivers all have > APIs for waiting f

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:21 +0200 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Please check this thread: > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2008-July/017347.html > > Original patches: http://lowbyte.de/vga-sync-fields/ > > New version: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=80567 > > Those might

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:19:49 +0200 "Ville Aakko" wrote: > 1) You need to enable sync on vblanck. [Snip] > The first is not possible on all drivers (i.e. fglrx). Absolutely not possible? I know OpenGL, DRI and NVidia drivers all have APIs for waiting for vblank and ISTR seeing a xine option fo

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:54:18PM +, Scott Waye wrote: > I want to replace my UK Sky digital box with VDR (I only want the free > to air channels) for watching/recording TV over HDMI on my plasma. So > far everything is working OK, I have vdr 1.7.3 and xine running on an > ASUS M2N VM-HDMI

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Ville Aakko
Hi Scott! 2009/1/19 Scott Waye : > If X is put into an interlaced mode (1920x1080i @ 50Hz), and I do not do > any de interlacing in xine, why is this not the same as what my digibox > does? I'm guessing it has something to do with xine outputting a > complete frame when the broadcast sends each f