On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Trent Piepho wrote: >> >resolution do you have to capture in with a BT8x8 to ensure no hardware >> >down scaling is done? >> With my BT878: 768x576. I live in PALland, I don't know about others. >No, that's wrong. For NTSC it is 754, for PAL it's 922. See page 26 in >the datasheet. I don't care about the datasheet, I care what happens in reality. If I tell xawtv or other V4L programs to capture in more than 768x576 all I get is a 768x576 picture with black borders. If I ask only 768x576 capture, the black borders are gone but the actual image is still the same. And even that is still much more than what a real TV would display.
