Re: Picture-in-Picture on HD1K?

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:33:11AM +1200, Hamish Guthrey wrote:
> Gidday.  Might it be possible for the HD1000 to generate a
> picture-in-picture display from two of the video inputs?  For example,
> display the component input fullscreen with the s-video input in a window,
> or display two sources side by side on a 16:9 display?

Nope.  When the analog video input is active, it's just electrically
switched directly to the analog output.  It doesn't pass through the
CPU and you can't perform any sort of processing on its contents.

Also, I think the s-video and component inputs share the same physical
wires within the box and you're not supposed to attach two sources at
once (not 100% sure about that, though).

You probably can't do this with digital video, either.  ATI suggests
the chip can technically decode two MPEG streams at once but I don't
believe there's anything in the Roku SDK that would support two MPEG
decoders running at the same time.

                                                  -Dave Dodge