interlaced video question for you XV experts

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:00 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> Is there really any point in making interlaced output like this work?

I think so, but we've already agreed that it's outside of the scope of
basic mode setting...

> Even a 200Mhz processor should be able to deinterlace on the fly. All
> you do is copy the buffer to ever other line, that can't add more than
> a few cycles.

If it were that simple, people dealing with video would have wasted a
lot of time. The fields aren't just two halves of a frame, they were all
recorded at different times.


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