Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-08-09 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Ben Lancki wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble. I'm actually having a hard time finding any video card that I can use (with xv). The nv driver doesn't seem to do xv in interlaced mode. My g400 open driver also doesn't do xv in interlaced and the binary driver from matrox doesn'

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-08-05 Thread Morten Rønseth
Hi, Ben Lancki wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble. I'm actually having a hard time finding any video card that I can use (with xv). The nv driver doesn't seem to do xv in interlaced mode. My g400 open driver also doesn't do xv in interlaced and the binary driver from matrox doesn't even do x11 i

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-08-04 Thread Ben Lancki
Sorry to burst your bubble. I'm actually having a hard time finding any video card that I can use (with xv). The nv driver doesn't seem to do xv in interlaced mode. My g400 open driver also doesn't do xv in interlaced and the binary driver from matrox doesn't even do x11 interlaced. You say that at

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-08-02 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Ben Lancki wrote: Are you using the "nvidia" driver or the open source "nv" driver? I'm wondering if nv might give both fields. I think you lose the capability to do xvmc though, but regular 2d acceleration is supposed to be good. I can't give up on this, the output from this

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-08-01 Thread Ben Lancki
Are you using the "nvidia" driver or the open source "nv" driver? I'm wondering if nv might give both fields. I think you lose the capability to do xvmc though, but regular 2d acceleration is supposed to be good. I can't give up on this, the output from this device is better than anything I've seen

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-31 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Ben Lancki wrote: Cory, It looks like only the fields scaled by xv are the problem. I can immediately tell I'm only getting half res because the SciFi channel logo is blocky. I just read a few comments on the nvidia forum that confirm this behavior (as well as nvidias unres

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-30 Thread Ben Lancki
Cory, It looks like only the fields scaled by xv are the problem. I can immediately tell I'm only getting half res because the SciFi channel logo is blocky. I just read a few comments on the nvidia forum that confirm this behavior (as well as nvidias unresponsiveness to fix it). If you're getting

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-29 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Ben Lancki wrote: Cory, I've tried several versions of the nvidia driver and based on what I see and what I've read in the nvidia forums the interlace feature of the driver doesn't work correctly. The 1.0.6xxx drivers all double the scan lines, effectively halving the resol

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-28 Thread Ben Lancki
Cory, I've tried several versions of the nvidia driver and based on what I see and what I've read in the nvidia forums the interlace feature of the driver doesn't work correctly. The 1.0.6xxx drivers all double the scan lines, effectively halving the resolution. The 1.0.7xxx drivers seem to drop t

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-28 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Nicer than any tvout on any vid card I've ever seen... would you agree? Just a quick question... did you use a crystal for the 3.58MHz color subcarrier? Is that the trimmer cap you're talking about? I had a bugger of a time getting it calibrated, as I don't have a spectrum analyzer. I di

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-28 Thread Ben Lancki
Cory, Bryan, Thanks for the info, I will experiment with other DisplaySize values in a 4:3 ratio until I find a text size that is comfortable. Cory, the hardware I built is the same as yours, it uses a 3.579545MHz crystal adjusted with the trimmer (good enough for the application we're using it f

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Cory Papenfuss wrote: Nicer than any tvout on any vid card I've ever seen... would you agree? Just a quick question... did you use a crystal for the 3.58MHz color subcarrier? Is that the trimmer cap you're talking about? I had a bugger of a time getting it calibrated, as I don't have a

[ivtv-devel] Re: AD724 questions

2005-07-28 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Ben Lancki wrote: Cory, I followed your various comments over the last year and built myself the same homebrew VGA to SVIDEO converter that you have based on the ad724. I'm using an nvidia fx5200. I've set my modeline to your recommendation and adjusted the trimmer cap so t