From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 04:02:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6DF16A4CF for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:02:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pandora.afflictions.org (asylum.afflictions.org [64.7.134.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656CB43D5A for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:02:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pandora.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378B878C8D; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:07:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dementia.afflictions.org (dementia.afflictions.org [172.19.206.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pandora.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC7078C8C; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dementia.afflictions.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 06CE2170C9; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:02:09 -0400 From: Damian Gerow To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20040829000209.GA58703@afflictions.org> References: <20040827053643.GB29321@afflictions.org> <200408282225.09364.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040828210443.GC38908@afflictions.org> <200408282326.15520.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408282326.15520.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 on a i386 X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3D7 D901 A53A 1A99 BFD6 E6DF 9F3B 742B C288 9CC9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at afflictions.org cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mencoder with bktr(4) device X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:02:21 -0000 Thus spake Michael Nottebrock (michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) [28/08/04 17:31]: : > I mean that the picture is fuzzy, there's horizontal lines going down the : > back, the colour's off in places... : : With S-Video? That really sounds like there's something wrong with the video : source. Are you using a SCART/S-VIDEO converter perhaps? In that case you'd : might to switch the signal to s-video at the video source first... Yep, with S-Video. Via mplayer, the RCA in is much cleaner than the S-Video in. Which is the whole reason for my post -- I'm obviously doing something wrong, I just don't know what. I rebooted into Windows and tested the card out -- while the S-Video is not as clear as I'd like it to be, it's better than RCA in under that OS -- the picture's much cleaner and crisper, there's no artifacts on the screen, and it doesn't hurt my eyes to watch for longer than ten minutes. I'm wondering if cabling will be an issue here -- I've got a dirt-cheap cable that I'm using, I might try to find a different one to see if that helps at all. No, it won't help the deinterlacing issues, but it might make other problems go away. And no, I believe it's S-Video at the source.