[PD] pdp: deinterlacing tv-card input for screenshots

Marc Lavallée marc at hacklava.net
Wed Aug 11 20:25:25 CEST 2004


Le 11 Août 2004 09:25, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to have to take some high quality screenshots of
> Playstation2 etc. games for a print magazine. The Windows users
> recommended the DScaler software for this (http://www.dscaler.org) but
> as I don't run Windows I thought, well, pdp/pidip should be able to do
> this as well, shouldn't it? If not, DScaler is GPL-software, so it
> might be possible to write PDP externals, wouldn't it?

Maybe the postproc library from mplayer could be integrated to pdp.

There's  good television applications for Gnu/Linux, with deinterlacing:
http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/

> I'm actually just learning pdp. I only have a RF-input in my tv-card,
> no S-Video, would this be sufficient for getting enough quality?

S-video is necessary for decent screenshots.

-- 
Marc




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