[vdr] vdr and YUV output

[Ondrej Wisniewski]

Andreas Holzhammer - Privat wrote:
>>Andreas Holzhammer - Privat a écrit :
> Nicolas,
> 
> thanks for your recommendations, I will have a look into the Matrox 
> route as well. I'm somewhat concerned on CPU power especially when 
> playing back mpeg4, but I could offload this to a pinnacle showcenter 
> type box.
> 
> There are three reasons to use YUV:
> - progressive scan is possible through YUV
> - DVD media is natively YUV
> - most important, my amp (Yamaha AX1) is capable of switching YUV input 
> signals (and add his OSD to it), but can't do RGB
> 
> So the highest achievable quality for me is YUV

I have the VDR box and a DVD player both with RGB output which I would
like to switch with an A/V amp. However there seem to be only amps on
the market that switch YUV signals. Anyone knows why ? Are there (cheap)
ways around that ?

Ondrej ...