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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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2 <!-- $Revision$ -->
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3 <sect1 id="tv-input" xreflabel="TV input">
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4 <title>TV input</title>
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5
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6 <para>
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7 This section is about how to enable <emphasis role="bold">watching/grabbing
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8 from V4L compatible TV tuner</emphasis>. See the man page for a description
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9 of TV options and keyboard controls.
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10 </para>
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13 <sect2 id="tv-compilation">
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14 <title>Compilation</title>
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16 <procedure>
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17 <step><para>
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18 First, you have to recompile. <filename>./configure</filename> will
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19 autodetect kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of
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20 <filename>/dev/video*</filename> entries. If they exist, TV support will
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21 be built (see the output of <filename>./configure</filename>).
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22 </para></step>
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23 <step><para>
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24 Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for
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25 example <application>XawTV</application>.
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26 </para></step>
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27 </procedure>
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28 </sect2>
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29
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30 <sect2 id="tv-tips">
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31 <title>Usage tips</title>
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32 <para>
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33 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page.
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34 Here are just a few tips:
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35 </para>
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36 <itemizedlist>
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37 <listitem>
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38 <para>
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39 Use the <option>channels</option> option. An example:
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40 <screen>-tv channels=26-MTV1,23-TV2</screen>
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41 Explanation: using this option, only the 26 and 23 channels will be usable,
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42 and there will be a nice OSD text upon channel switching, displaying the
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43 channel's name. Spaces in the channel name must be replaced by the
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44 &quot;_&quot; character.
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45 </para>
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46 </listitem>
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48 <listitem>
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49 <para>
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50 Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting image should
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51 be divisible by 16.
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52 </para>
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53 </listitem>
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55 <listitem>
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56 <para>
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57 If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of
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58 the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you turned
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59 deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted during
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60 fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even unable
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61 to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce high
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62 amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable
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63 deinterlacing with <option>-vf pp=DEINT_TYPE</option>. Usually
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64 <option>pp=lb</option> does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
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65 preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a try.
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66 </para>
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67 </listitem>
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69 <listitem>
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70 <para>
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71 Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the edges
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72 are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume lots of
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73 unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black areas themselves
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74 but the sharp transitions between the black and the brighter video image
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75 which do but that's not important for now. Before you start capturing,
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76 adjust the arguments of the <option>crop</option> option so that all the
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77 crap at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
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78 dimensions sane.
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79 </para>
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80 </listitem>
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81
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82 <listitem>
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83 <para>
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84 Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most of the
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85 time. If you have a large capture buffer, <application>MEncoder</application>
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86 can survive an overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to
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87 turn off the 3D OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.
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88 </para>
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89 </listitem>
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91 <listitem>
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92 <para>
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93 Don't mess with the system clock. <application>MEncoder</application> uses the
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94 system clock for doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially
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95 backwards in time), <application>MEncoder</application> gets confused and you
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96 will lose frames. This is an important issue if you are hooked to a network
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97 and run some time synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP
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98 off during the capture process if you want to capture reliably.
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99 </para>
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102 <listitem>
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103 <para>
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104 Don't change the <option>outfmt</option> unless you know what you are doing
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105 or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
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106 In the older versions of <application>MPlayer</application>/
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107 <application>MEncoder</application> it was necessary to specify the output
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108 format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and <option>outfmt</option>
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109 isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most purposes. For example,
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110 if you are capturing into DivX using
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111 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> and specify
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112 <option>outfmt=RGB24</option> in order to increase the quality of the captured
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113 images, the captured image will be actually later converted back into YV12 so
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114 the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
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115 </para>
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118 <listitem>
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119 <para>
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120 To specify the I420 colorspace (<option>outfmt=i420</option>), you have to add an
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121 option <option>-vc rawi420</option> due to a fourcc conflict with an Intel Indeo
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122 video codec.
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123 </para>
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126 <listitem>
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127 <para>
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128 There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either using
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129 your sound card via an external cable connection between video card and line-in,
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130 or using the built-in ADC in the bt878 chip. In the latter case, you have to
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131 load the <emphasis role="bold">btaudio</emphasis> driver. Read the
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132 <filename>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</filename> file (in the kernel
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133 tree, not <application>MPlayer</application>'s) for some instructions on using
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134 this driver.
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135 </para>
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138 <listitem>
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139 <para>
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140 If <application>MEncoder</application> cannot open the audio device, make
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141 sure that it is really available. There can be some trouble with the sound
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142 servers like arts (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex sound card
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143 (almost any decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to
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144 check the "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.
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145 </para>
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147 </itemizedlist>
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148 </sect2>
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151 <sect2 id="tv-examples">
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152 <title>Examples</title>
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154 <informalexample>
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155 <para>
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156 Dummy output, to AAlib :)
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157 <screen>
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158 mplayer -tv driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa tv://<!--
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159 --></screen>
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160 </para>
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161 </informalexample>
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163 <informalexample>
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164 <para>
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165 Input from standard V4L:
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166 <screen>
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167 mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://<!--
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168 --></screen>
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169 </para>
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170 </informalexample>
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172 <informalexample>
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173 <para>
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174 A more sophisticated example. This makes <application>MEncoder</application>
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175 capture the full PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture
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176 using a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant bitrate
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177 of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for capturing movies.
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178 <screen>
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179 mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
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180 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \
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181 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \
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182 -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> tv://
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187 <informalexample>
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188 <para>
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189 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses the
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190 video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The vqmax option
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191 looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to actually reach so
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192 low bitrate even at the expense of the quality. This can be used for
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193 capturing long TV series, where the video quality isn't so important.
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194 <screen>
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195 mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
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196 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \
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197 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \
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198 -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> tv://
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199 </screen>
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200 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the <option>-tv</option>
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201 option and omit the software scaling but this approach uses the maximum available
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202 information and is a little more resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the
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203 pixel averaging only in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.
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204 </para>
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205 </informalexample>
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206 </sect2>
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207 </sect1>