[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] dxr3: TV norm option

David Holm david at realityrift.com
Tue Dec 24 13:36:50 CET 2002


Looks ok to me. But please update and diff the documentation as well. 
DOCS/video.html

//David Holm

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:54, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Most TVs are capable of PAL and NTSC, so watching movies
> with the frame rate they were initially encoded with
> gives smooth playback without any need for framedrops.
>
> It was pretty annoying to always look at the frame rate of a movie,
> exit mplayer, call em8300setup with the norm corresponding
> to the frame rate and then start mplayer again.
>
> I wrote a small patch for the dxr3 output plugin
> to (auto) set the TV norm (by movie frame rate).
>
> This patch adds another option to -vo dxr3: "norm="
>
> norm=5: Force NTSC
> norm=4: Force PAL-60
> norm=3: Force PAL
>
> norm=2: Select PAL or PAL-60 based upon movie frame rate
> norm=1: Select PAL or NTSC based upon movie frame rate
>
> The patch applies against mplayer CVS/mplayer-v0.90rc1
> and doesn't break any existing functionality by default.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas




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