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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@booyaka.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] V4L/DVB: tvp5150: COMPOSITE0 input should not force-enable TV mode
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:03:02 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB06806.2070900@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinhS=GOV=1uR6H=9_=S-nyirdm6Z7HF6N5wKw2T@mail.gmail.com>

Em 09-10-2010 09:33, Devin Heitmueller escreveu:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Paul Walmsley <paul@booyaka.com> wrote:
>>
>> When digitizing composite video from a analog videotape source using the
>> TVP5150's first composite input channel, the captured stream exhibits
>> tearing and synchronization problems[1].
>>
>> It turns out that commit c0477ad9feca01bd8eff95d7482c33753d05c700 caused
>> "TV mode" (as opposed to "VCR mode" or "auto-detect") to be forcibly
>> enabled for both composite inputs.  According to the chip
>> documentation[2], "TV mode" disables a "chrominance trap" input filter,
>> which appears to be necessary for high-quality video capture from an
>> analog videotape source.  [ Commit
>> c7c0b34c27bbf0671807e902fbfea6270c8f138d subsequently restricted the
>> problem to the first composite input, apparently inadvertently. ]
> 
> FYI:  This isn't a newly discovered issue:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg13869.html

Yeah. I basically asked people to do more tests, but never got any feedback
about that issue. Provided that it won't break anything, I'm ok on merging
it.

Cheers,
Mauro

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-09 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-09  4:31 [PATCH] V4L/DVB: tvp5150: COMPOSITE0 input should not force-enable TV mode Paul Walmsley
2010-10-09 12:33 ` Devin Heitmueller
2010-10-09 13:03   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2010-10-09 15:10     ` Paul Walmsley
2010-10-09 15:22   ` Paul Walmsley

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