[vdr] Re: DirectFB, OST, VDR-Console ?

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Mike Pieper schrieb:
> 
> On Saturday 25 May 2002 21:52, Christian Berger wrote:
> > Well one problem with outputting video on the VGA connector is there's
> > no sync. It might work with SyncFB set to the framerate of the incoming
> > video. But otherwise there is no chance of getting a decent output
> > without having the VGA card synced to the input.
> 
> This problem is nearly solved in df-gp (http://df-gp.sf.net). This project
> adds a new ioctl for the graphics card, which resyncs the card.
> This allows to compute by how much the card is off and to resynchronize it.
> Right now the resynchronization is a simple restart of the output counters.
> This gives a hick-up in the picture flow. Much better would be to fine tune
> the VGA cards frequency. This would result in a phase-locked-loop. If anyone
> has an idea how to do that ...
> 
> Regards,
> Mike

Wow, such a resync or file-tuning might be great. We could make a
mostly-software-genlock.

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