Date   : Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:13:49
From   : heyrick.beebsoc@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Auntie, dear Auntie

On 03/08/2011 15:15, Adam Sampson wrote:

>> but then how many domestic capture devices permit that part of the
>> screen to be captured?
> I never said anything about using a domestic capture card. ;-)
> (Or an unmodified VCR, come to that...)

;-)


> The decent cards do, though, often providing a high-quality "raw VBI"
> mode that gives you better resolution than for the image itself;

? I thought the decent chips had their own teletext data slicer? I know 
my PVR's tvp5150 is capable of Closed Caption and/or WST decoding, and 
with the "VCR mode" option, it might attempt some retrieval from a video 
recording.

Not, of course, that the onboard software or the closed-source 
tvp5150.so driver [*] makes the slightest bit of use of this...


Best wishes,

Rick.

* - I really ought to disassemble it so I can hack together a
     work-alike that also allows for contrast/bright/saturation/sharp to
     be set - yet another think the cacky bog-standard driver doesn't do.
     And don't get me started on the Debian SD interface driver, or the
     DM320's USB driver that pretty much *only* understands a *single*
     mass storage device (no keyboards, no hubs...). Hmmm...