How WinTV Works
How
WinTV
displays Video-in-a-Window
To display live video on your PC monitor, the
WinTV
boards use a tech-
nique called
PCI Push
. With this technique, the live video is digitized
by the
WinTV
board and then moved over the PCI bus into the
memory of your VGA display adapter. Here are the steps in getting
live TV onto your VGA screen:
-
the
TV Tuner
is controlled by software to tune to a specified TV
channel. It takes a modulated television broadcast signal and turns
it into
demodulated video
and
audio
signals.
-
the
demodulated video
from the TV tuner goes into the
848,
871 or 881 Video Digitizer chip
, where it is converted into a
digital form using YUV 4:2:2 sampling. This is a high quality sam-
pling format which results in resolution equivalent to 24-bits of RGB
per video pixel.
-
the
demodulated audio
goes into an on-board audio switcher.
WinTV
’s audio switcher can receive audio from the TV tuner or the
Audio Input Jacks (Left, Right)
. The output of this audio switcher
goes to both the
Audio Out Jack
(
Line Out
) and the
CD-audio
passthrough connector
for connection to a sound card.
- the
Video Digitizer chip
is also a
PCI-bus Master
device.
After the video pixels are digitized, it “pushes” them over the PCI
bus into the memory of your PC’s VGA display adapter. It does this
without requiring your PC’s processor to do any work, therefore live
video can be displayed in a window on your VGA screen without
slowing down your PC.
Video Overlay mode of operation
Live TV can be displayed on your VGA screen by using either the
Video
Overlay
or the
Primary Surface
mode. The mode which is used is
dependent upon your PC’s hardware and software. If your VGA has
enough display memory to hold the digitized video image, then WinTV’s
Video Digitizer “pushes” YUV 4:2:2 video pixels for temporary storage
into an off-screen part of the VGA memory called a Secondary Surface.
This method is called Video Overlay. The VGA display adapter will then
convert the video image from YUV 4:2:2 into RGB video and continu-
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