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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

What is the secret to how the VIP Scaler works, and can it handle 4:2:2 video?

We are currently working on a system which is fairly complex. We thought we could save some time by utilizing Altera's VIP Suite for decimation and interpolation (yuk, yuk). We are using custom fil...
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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Very much agree with jfmorris. Using VIP sucks. I've wasted plenty of time w/it, sent some service requests to mySupport, and mostly I got the answer finally that the function I try to use does not work with interlaced video, or does work with RGB only, and so on. Implementing the converter IPs eats a lot of logic, so for complex video designs only big chips can be used.

The documentation is critically bad, too.