Eckhard Stolberg wrote:
> Definately not before John returns from his vacation in a couple of
> days. Then he'll let you know how much money you'd have to transfer
> to the "z26 requested features fund" account so that he can pay off
> his holidays and spend his free time on z26 again. ;-)
Yeah, if we could get him to implement the feature *and* pay for my
vacation, that would be great. After all, Thomas already knows how much fun
it is to work on z26. ;-)
> I guess we could add a command line switch that allows you to display
> the odd frames in the odd scanlines in mode 6. But that probably
> wouldn't look quite right, as the flicker would be much worse on a
> real TV. Also you wouldn't know if you are really doing a proper
> interlace signal that the TV would accept.
Well there's always mode 7 or mode 9. That might work a little better.
> To add an autodetection feature for interlace, we would have to know
> exactly when a "half line" causes the interlace to occur and when it
> just creates PAL colour-loss. But that might be different on didfferent
> TVs, like the number of lines it can display before the picture rolls.
I wouldn't worry too much about auto-detection right now. My only question
is do we stop what we're doing to do this, or do we wait until we're
finished with what we've started?
John
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