RE: Picture-in-Picture on HD1K?

Ok, thanks for clarifying that Dave.

Cheers!
-h

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dave Dodge
> Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:26 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] Picture-in-Picture on HD1K?
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> 
> 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
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