Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:55:54 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help with TV capture (mplayer/brooktree/audigy) Message-ID: <20050422095554.35a3ff26.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20050421163426.96546.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> References: <20050421021909.28497.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20050421102551.12ebb916.steve@sohara.org> <20050421163426.96546.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:34:04 -0300 Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:25:29AM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:18:47 -0300 > > You might get better results connecting the SCART on the decoder to the > > S-Video input on the BrookTree card - I'm doing that with a DTV box at the moment. > > You need the right kind of SCART->S-Video converter (one with a switch is best IME). > > Unfortunaly, the satellite decoder only has S-Video/RCA > output so I picked the S-Video one. Furthermore, my BrookTree card > only has RCA input. Therefore, I am using a S-Video to RCA "converter". Ah - why not use the RCA output of the decoder directly ? It might produce better sync signals. > > > 2) Every few seconds the video stream seems to choke; thus, > > > giving me an effect similar to the famous interlaced "blinders > > > effect" so I added a deinterlacer filter > > > > Sync detection problems perhaps. > > Any ideas on how to fix that? I have no problems with a lot > of test x trials :) Well I was hoping you could use an input that didn't require sync separation. Other than that the tweaks Jacob Meuser suggested are well worth trying.
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