22 Jun
2008
22 Jun
'08
1:25 a.m.
Eric J Korpela wrote:
"unable to sync" is technically inaccurate, I misspoke. The picture
is
synced properly (i.e. it's not rolling vertically or tearing
horizontally). It just seems to have trouble de-interlacing certain
signals -- from my inexpert observations, one field of each frame is
displayed properly, while the other field is skewed at a 30 degree angle
or so and flickers like mad.
At any rate, I've sent that unit back and I picked up a used one of
these:
http://www.startech.com/item/VID2VGATV-Composite-S-Video-Component-YCbCr-to…
(for _considerably_ less than what it's listed for there...). So far
it's happy with everything I've thrown at it and the picture quality is
quite good. Has decent controls, seems well built, etc...
Thanks,
Josh
> Well,
sure. I wasn't expecting the highest quality output for what I paid
> (but I didn't _need_ that...). But I wasn't expecting it to be unable to
> sync to half of my gear :).
>
I'm really surprised at that. Might it be as easy as some signal
conditioning? Use an LM1881 to separate the sync, and then put it
back together a bit cleaner?