Text 5204, 47 rader
Skriven 2006-02-07 15:25:14 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 5201 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
Ärende: Re: radeon tv-out and movie encoding experiments
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Hey Kenneth!

Feb 06 17:52 06, Kenneth Parrish wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 KP> i looked and didnt see it but radeonfb.c indicates 32bpp support as 
 KP> well as 24.

I am not sure anyone uses 32-bit for graphics.  All of the intense graphics
I've run across have been 24-bit, including the few DVDs I have watched (I
checked).

 MK>> I'll just use an 800x600 16-bit screen and see if I can output that 
 MK>> to the tv-out to something appropriate.  I have an old Commodore 
 MK>> monitor that should be able to handle it.
 KP> these sold at local store around 1983 for ~$159 + ~7% tax

It is a nice monitor.  Nice colours.  Sharp clear picture.  It was another
abandoned piece of harware I put to work over a decade ago, except never on a
computer before, or at least not directly.  With tv-out that will probably
change.  I'll call it my version of high definition TV.  :-)

 MK>> Myself I don't care as I doubt it'll ever matter to me personally.
 KP> i hope there's pleasure in the how it matters, if it should (:

TV is too boring.  Certainly not worth buying a high quality specialized piece
of equipment for given the little I watch.  Thus exchanging the win-tv with my
neighbour made perfect sense as he is more apt to put it to work.  Myself I am
content playing with stubborn hardware, such as the Matrox breakout box, and
see what can be done with things like it.  Other then that sort of thing,
little of this type of stuff holds any attraction to me.  Same with movies. 
Playing with digital filtering is fun though so chances are pretty good that
between all the machines here (neighbours too) something will come out of that.

 KP> one or more of the ladspa toolkits include ambisonic encoding and 
 KP> decoding. this uses the full range of channel options for recording 
 KP> and playback in a clever way.

I should probably pick up audio again.  I've had some fun with that in the past
and have a half-decent collection of digitized music.  Some of it I did ages
ago and they aren't as good quality-wise as they could be.  Once things settle
down and I find a suitable preamp for the cause I'll get back on that horse.

Life is good,
Maurice

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