RFC: Xv field order

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Thomas Hilber <xorg at toh.cx> writes:

> the newer type intel chips do that transparently in hardware. I have not
> found documentation about how they exactly handle this (by scaling each field
> independently or by deinterlacing?).

Ah, I didn't know this. Is it supported by the textured video? Overlay
only?

> But for watching 16:9
> material on an 4:3 TV it's a very useful feature. Picture quality is
> still very good.

Or at least the best we can do. Sure.

My TV monitor has different modes (16/9, 14/9, 4/3 and so on) so I
haven't though about it, but it's clearly interesting for displaying
many video windows simultaneously ("thumbnails").

> no, my patch collection is for conventional TV - one screen only. 
> My major concern was not to encounter any field loss. That's why I
> synchronize field timing dynamically to the stream clock.

Sure, I OTOH work with non-live data.
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Krzysztof Halasa