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16 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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16 years ago

immJake,

You are right about that... it is a matter of understanding that you may need more than one piece to get the job done since there are shortcomings with individual pieces and how they are designed and interact with another to perform a specific purpose...

From a video engineer's/architect's perspective the Video IP Suite was not designed properly with respect to the expected function of each piece. However, this could have been easily overcome with good documentation. There are many assumptions that need to made when using the Video IP Suite, and if you are a "newbie" to video processing, I can see the confusion and subsequently frustration immeditately.

Precise documentation (and not power-point presentations or block diagrams) covers a multitude of sins...