On September 26, 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 01:08, James Oakley wrote: > > On September 25, 2001 07:43 pm, you wrote: > > > It would appear that if I want fullscreen, I use v4l2 and accept the > > > 640x480 screen res drop, or use v4l1 and accept that I cannot use > > > hardware scaling. Oh, and I cannot take screen captures without it > > > going into a high-cpu low-framerate mode. > > > > Do you really need hardware scaling or a high-res screen? NTSC is > > slightly lower res than 640x480 and a high-res modeline won't increase > > the quality of your picture in any way. > > 1. We use PAL here in Europe > 2. Whether I need it or not, I should still be able to do it > > I run in 1280x960 mode, and this has a window open that's less than 1/4 > of my screen normally. If I want to watch TV from a few feet away, it > becomes much less appropriate; it really needs to be scaled up for > fullscreen. What I mean is why not make a modeline that matches the TV standard? I have the following modeline in my X setup (that's for NTSC, not PAL): Modeline "700x525" 79 700 732 780 892 525 526 529 554 -hsync -vsync It works perfectly for me, and I don't have to bother with hardware scaling at all. The xawtv config allows me to specify that resolution for fullscreen so a simple 'f' keypress gives me a full screen. Actually, I did that because hardware scaling didn't work for me when I first bought my card. -- James Oakley jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
