Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-08 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hi Andy, Thanks for taking the time to do some testing in your environment. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Andy Walls awa...@radix.net wrote: My observations: 1. With the amplifier on and anti-alias filter off things looked fine. 2. With the amplifier on and anti-alias filter on things

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-07 Thread Andy Walls
I'll try to perform a quick test with my PVR-350 with NTSC and the YUV capture device BTW. OK. So my test setup: a. DTV STB tuned to the SuperBowl :) b. Composite out from the STB feeding my PVR-350/SAA7115 with an NTSC CVBS input. c. mplayer capturing raw YUV video from the PVR-350's

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-06 Thread Andy Walls
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 23:34 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: Hey Andy, The visible effects of the anti-alais filter could possibly be: 1. Less range of color, if high freqs of the color get attenuated. (Most people likely will not perceive this as most people are not that sensitive to

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-05 Thread Franklin Meng
...@kernellabs.com wrote: From: Devin Heitmueller dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com Subject: Re: Any saa711x users out there? To: Andy Walls awa...@radix.net Cc: Linux Media Mailing List linux-media@vger.kernel.org Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 8:34 PM Hey Andy, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Andy

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-04 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Andy Walls awa...@radix.net wrote: With all that said, if you have a baseband Luma or Chroma signal with strong spurious high frequency components (crappy source, or you're overdriving the front end and getting intermods), then keep the anti-alias filter turned

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-04 Thread Andy Walls
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 10:24 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Andy Walls awa...@radix.net wrote: With all that said, if you have a baseband Luma or Chroma signal with strong spurious high frequency components (crappy source, or you're overdriving the front end

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-04 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hey Andy, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Andy Walls awa...@radix.net wrote: Hmmm.  The AGC (or static gain level?) of the amplifier in the SAA7113 before the anti-alias filter may be set too high causing the clipping (intermods) there.  It may be worth looking at the gain setting for that

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-03 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mche...@redhat.com wrote: The better is to allow enabling/disabling the anti-alias via ctrl. Whatever default is chosen, the driver may adjust the control default at the board initialization, or even blocking the control when the other mode

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-03 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mche...@redhat.com wrote: The better is to allow enabling/disabling the anti-alias via ctrl. Whatever default is chosen, the driver may adjust the control default at the board initialization, or even blocking the

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-03 Thread Andy Walls
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:51 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: Hello all, I am doing some quality improvements for a couple of the em28xx/saa7113 designs, and I found a pretty serious problem which appears to have been there for some time. In fact, the regression was introduced when the

Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-02 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hello all, I am doing some quality improvements for a couple of the em28xx/saa7113 designs, and I found a pretty serious problem which appears to have been there for some time. In fact, the regression was introduced when the saa7115 support was added in 2005 (hg revision 2750). This change

Re: Any saa711x users out there?

2010-02-02 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Devin Heitmueller wrote: Hello all, I am doing some quality improvements for a couple of the em28xx/saa7113 designs, and I found a pretty serious problem which appears to have been there for some time. In fact, the regression was introduced when the saa7115 support was added in 2005 (hg