[vdr] Re: Deinterlacing

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:55:28 +0200, Flemming Frandsen
<ff@partyticket.net> wrote:

> Emil Naepflein wrote:
> > I use a Lumagen Vision and the vdr image is great on a 16:9 screen with
> > 243 cm width.
> 
> I don't want to bother with a hardware scaler, there is no way a signal 
> which has been through an a/d -> d/a step is going to be better than 
> just deinterlacing/scaling the image in the htpc before doing the d/a 
> conversion.

Remember, we are talking about a DVB-S card. It has no digital output.

> Another thing to consider is that I might want to actually scale the 
> video, but the subtitles that go over it should be at the full 
> resolution of the pj (1280x1024 or 1024x768 depending on what my cpu 
> will handle).
> 
> The idea is to do all scaling in software and use a normal graphics 
> board to supply RGB to the pj.

The idea is good, but the implementation is missing.

Emil