[ydl-gen] New user

[Warren Nagourney]

David,

Could you please be a little more specific about your configuration?  
I saw on the web a device from Vdigi electronics which claims to do  
what you describe but mentions only the PS2 in its manual (the ad  
mentions the PS3). I assume you obtained a component cable for the  
PS3 as well (the cable which comes with the PS3 is only composite  
video). The total cost of these two devices is about $100, which is a  
little high. I might try exchanging my Samsung 940BW for a 940B which  
is supposedly HDCP compliant and use the HDMI port as I am doing now.

I assume that with analogue video, your monitor can display the image  
without scaling (with a border around the image in most cases)?

Thanks.

-wn


On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:15 AM, David Seikel wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:59:17 -0000 "Paul Baxter"
> <pauljbaxter at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW
>>
>> HDCP is required for using a monitor with Linux *from the HDMI*
>> output. Nothing to stop you using alternatives (component) without
>> HDCP. Perhaps that's what David is doing with his LCD panel.
>>
>> Less sure on the PS3 game OS; you may be able to not have the HDCP
>> restriction with HDMI except with Blu-Ray disks requiring content
>> protection.
>
> Component video through a component to VGA transcoder at 720p is what
> I'm currently using.  Works fine on the GameOS as well.  I dunno about
> content protected Blu-Ray disks, I don't have any.  The Talladega
> Nights Blu-Ray disk that comes with the PS3 works better in 720p than
> most DVDs do.  No de interlacing artifacts, and no compression
> artifacts that I can spot.
>
> On the other hand, kboot runs at 480i, and my component solution
> doesn't work for my monitor at 480i.  I can pass that via composite
> through my TV card and then to a TV program running on my other
> computer.  It's hardly usable though.  S-Video should work slightly
> better, but I don't have a PS3 to S-Video cable.
>
> I haven't finished experimenting yet, I may come up with a better
> solution.
>
> It does boil down to many ways of getting video out of the PS3, and
> many types of monitor with varied restrictions at either end, and
> sometimes restrictions in the middle.  Suck it and see, if it doesn't
> work, try something else.
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