Questions tagged [video]
Specify video format, e.g. NTSC, ATSC, VGA, etc.
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Why does VGA have so many ground pins (compared to DVI-I for example)?
If you look at the pinout for VGA, there are several ground pins:
I was curious as to why, and I found this answer. To sum it up, the extra ground pins are so that each pin has its own ground in ...
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What is this inductor symbol from a video circuit?
This is from the datasheet for the TDA8217 PAL decoder and video processor. This is the "Applicaton Diagram".
The circled item is unfamiliar to me, I asked at my local electronic components ...
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What is the purpose of this device?
I found this device in my father's basement, but I can't figure out what this device is.
It has only 1 SCART connector, 1 power cable and only 1 button in front of it.
I think it may be some old video ...
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Where do I start with embedded video? [closed]
My boss recently asked me how difficult it would be to design a product that could continually record fairly low quality video and store the last few hours in some form of internal memory. I have ...
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What is a digital video port?
I see a few questions here casually mention that image sensor modules have a
"standard parallel digital video port (DVP) or ... MIPI high-speed serial interface"
"Where do I start with embedded video?...
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Generating PAL tv signal using a PIC
I'm trying to generate PAL tv signals using a PIC24FJ64GB002 using a similar method to the circuit described half way down this page. The only difference is that my circuit needs to run at 3v instead ...
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How do analog video signals work
I have always wondered how an only 1 wire line (signal and ground) can make a whole color image appear on a screen full of thousands of pixels. How exactly do these signals work and what ...
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Troubleshooting a faulty filter circuit in a PAL CRT display
I have an old CRT monitor (Phillips CM8833) which I am attempting to repair. When displaying a composite PAL signal, it only shows a black and white image, but it is still able to display RGB signals ...
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Why can't analog video be compressed like digital video (example inside)?
I'm learning the basics of analog and digital TV signals and I came across
this (original link, now gone) short article (see the next page as well).
Why can't analog video signals be compressed in ...
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Why do most FPV 5.8 GHz video transmitters use PAL or NTSC?
I am not much into the details of video transmission in general. However, I wonder since most displays and electronics are digital, why have suppliers for FPV equipment chosen an analog transmission ...
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Does VGA have to be drawn at 60hz?
I'm wanting to generate a VGA signal hopefully as painlessly as possible.
I have an odd question though. Everywhere I see that VGA requires a 25MHz clock for the sync signals.
Is it possible to ...
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VGA to HDMI converter
I'm making a little project purely as a hobby using a small FPGA breakout board.
I'm outputting VGA video which works fine, but would like HDMI output instead so I can connect to a television that has ...
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Learning videos for electronic concepts?
Are there any interesting and graphical videos for learning electronic concepts, like basic principles of capacitor, inductor, resistor, transistor and other advanced concepts like digital electronics?...
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How can I control a CGA screen with an Arduino?
I'm getting one of these http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=446
I'm planning to build a server inside it. And I was thinking of using the built in CGA-monitor as a ...
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What is Front Porch and Back Porch of a video signal in CRT display? [duplicate]
What is a Front Porch used for?
What is a Back Porch used for?
What does it mean by active video?
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Video Home System (VHS) bandwidth
Standard play VHS video cassette recorders offered only about 3 MHz luminance bandwidth by recording the signal on an FM carrier. What is that carrier frequency? Is it possible to confirm the carrier ...
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Why the audio subcarrier is never transmitted with baseband analogue video signal?
In the era of analogue video, when you needed to connect a local video source (STB, VCR, game console, DVD player, etc.), the most ubiquitous way to do so, next to using an RF modulator, would be to ...
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VGA Decoding - Dealing with tolerances
Update:
The VGA Simulator is up and running. You can go simulate your own designs or just use the example file to see it working. I also wrote a blog post to help anyone get started using it for ...
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Video Out through USB (or other means)
For an medium-high speed ADC converter, my FPGA is currently receiving 16-bit samples at 54 MHz over an LVDS interface (4 differential signal lines plus 1 differential clock signal). These are video/...
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Raspberry Pi stereo camera frame synchronization/genlock (video or still image)
I need to frame synchronize a stereo camera for a computer vision application. The synchronization should the best possible, hopefully on a millisecond level. I would like to get about 10 FPS either ...
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Using an inertial measurement unit to compute global motion optical flow of video [closed]
I have a camera rigidly mounted together with an IMU that consists of 2-dof gyroscopes and 3-dof accelerometers. My aim is to compute the global optical flow of the image captured by the camera, in ...
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Lack of color displaying composite video
I'm attempting to output video from a TMS9118 VDP to a television's composite video port. Right now the result I'm getting is grey scale (whereas the background should be green), and I have no idea ...
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RGBHV (VGA) to YPbPr Converter and Waveforms?
Purely for hobby, I am working on an RGBHV (VGA) to YPbPr (Component) converter circuit for old games consoles modified to output RGBHV on a VGA cable. From the game consoles, the RGB signal is taken ...
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Transmitting a video stream through a microcontroller's wifi
I'm working a a project that currently works well but this year we want to expand it by collecting data from it, independent of its current functions. We have set up an iPad App to control an Arduino ...
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Sync video with data
When I have a datalogger and I want to sync a video-file to the recording, what would be an easy method? The logger and the camera both have an internal clock, but they may not be set exactly to the ...
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MCU + Linux + Video?
How can I create an device running Linux (Android OS) with video output?
PS. I don't want to use an existing very sophisticated dev board, I want to create one.
Thanks!
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Operation without power: Passing analog video
Okay, the title sounds odd, I'll admit. I need my project to work without power. That is, a complete power failure may happen, and no additional power (such as a battery or supercap) is available ...
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Composite/RGB Video from simple hardware
I'm designing a 68000-based VGM player, and I'd like it to output some sort of 'visualization' of the currently playing song to a TV through either RGB or Composite (video encoder probably for that.) ...
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Video overlay / on screen display architecture
I want to take a NTSC/PAL component video and overlay graphics over it.
I am aware of solutions that either use the max7456 overlay chip, or accomplish it with just an AVR
but these seem to have ...
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VGA signal timing calculation using MCU
I want to generate VGA signal with microcontroller. But I have hard time finding solution online how to generate them in software. For e.g. Usually all online VGA signal generation just explains ...
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What is "rabbit ear" in a video-capture context?
I was reading the TVP5158 datasheet, and ran into a register bit that would enable "rabbit ear". What is that?
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Separating the AM and QAM components in PAL signal demodulation
I'm attempting to emulate the modulation and demodulation of a PAL video frame in software, but I'm having trouble understanding how the AM (luma) and QAM (UV) components of the signal are separated ...
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Can the DS1052E be used for reliable NTSC measurement?
I'm in the market for an oscilloscope. I've read that the infamous DS1052E from Rigol is a great beginner scope due to the price/performance.
However, I know I have a lot to learn and simply don't ...
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Why should crystal switching be avoided?
The MC44144 is a gated phase locked loop intended for video applications that is described in its datasheet as "sensitive
to shunt capacitance" and that "crystal switching should be avoided".
What ...
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Analog Video PCB Layout
What special considerations and/or constraints are typically applied when routing analog video signals on a PCB (e.g. VGA, NTSC, etc). I'm thinking try and keep them routed on a single layer (i.e. at ...
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Connecting luma only output to composite input [closed]
In the course of troubleshooting this problem I reconnected RCA connector connected to the RCA input of my TV to the luma wire of AD725 in hope having precise and beautiful grayscale picture, but got ...
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Why there is 625 lines [ PAL ] in T.V. scanning or odd lines?
I can't get why there are 625 lines in a PAL scanning system. I read R.R.Gulatti's standard book. In that there is a reason like:
"Suppose there are x lines in 1 field. Then for two field its 2x....
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High definition video on a composite cable
Does anyone know if there exists an electrical/electronic standard for high definition video on a single wire, like composite TV which integrates luma, chroma and sync? I'm still interested in this ...
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How much resistance is too much resistance for a video switch?
I'm looking for a device to switch video signals; a video switch. I want to use a dual/triple switch for two purposes, first to switch between two video signals, and secondly to switch the signal ...
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Convert from VGA 9 pin to RCA (manually - old machine) [closed]
I'm in a trouble. Can someone help me?
I have a very big machine where I had mounted an IBM 5151 monitor by VGA. The VGA cable was connected to the card below (see attachment), by 4 wires.
Now the ...
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Optocoupler as a switch for composite video sources
I want to switch between 2 video sources (cameras) to a common video receiver. Is general purpose optocoupler suitable for that?
Here is the schematics:
In more details, the video switch is ...
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What is this obsolete (?) video screw connector called?
Found on the rear of an old (1970s) Sanyo monitor. It's not standard cable/co-ax, it's larger and beefier. It's used here for a composite signal.
Thanks for any pointers.
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Is there an FPGA based vector graphics card project?
I have been messing around with VGA projects as my latest interest. I have a Xilinx Spartan 3E 250K FPGA, which has just barely too little RAM for a full 640x480 frame buffer. So, I'm looking at ...
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AD725ARZ wrong colors
I designed device based on AD725ARZ, datasheet is here. Device is built basing on the reference circuit diagram on page 12.
TV is connected to composite output of the circuit. It does not have S-...
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Extract information from video through HDMI input processing
I need to develop a prototype of a device that does the following:
Take an HDMI input
For each frame extract a small region of the screen.
It's a small bar indicating some changing value.
Convert ...
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Arduino-like Platform With Wireless and Video?
Is there a Arduino-like hardware platform that allows for wireless connectivity (think remote control) and for connection of a webcam (with streaming that wireless video over the wireless connection)? ...
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FPGA - synchronise “very close” clock from signal
This is more of a learning question, I can solve the problem but it would be good to know how to do it - can a clock be reconstructed from a signal, and is it easier when the frequency of the clock is ...
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Can this old portable CRT TV connect to a RPi?
I'm a scrapper and hacker of vintage electronics. I found this wacky old portable TV with a small B&W screen and I really love the look of it. I want to feed it video (or something) from a ...
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C64 composite video out of spec? Upscaler rejects it, but accepts TC-2048
Trying to wrap my head around why a particular CVBS/SVideo to VGA converter I have accepts every composite signal I feed into it, but refuses a C64C CVBS signal (which my 55" Samsung TV doesn't ...
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Cheapest way to wirelessly transmit video
I'm really big on building RC vehicles. I want to hook up a video camera which can transmit video signals, but don't know what options I have available.
My only requirement is that it has to be as ...