Below is an evolving list of feature requests extracted fromuser and developer feedback as of 10/02/00:
NOTICE: At least one of these bugs may have been fixed since the dateindicated above, check the source code or the mailing list to verify.
- Allow ability to access menu options through right mouse click(channel, inputs, aspect ratio, deinterlace, volume, etc.)
- Store multiple settings files that can be chosen from drop down (movies, sports, svideo, cable, etc).
- Enhance channel scan code to to truncate channel search (I hate when it scans channels 70-125 and finds nothing), ability to manually add/delete channels and ability to automatically assign standard channel number
- Per channel video format selection for those in dual-standard countries
- GUI fine-tuning of channel frequencies
- Allow American-style channel turning--typing channel numbers on keyboard/remote to turn to channel (e.g., typing "48" goes to channel 48 in frequency tables from channels.txt)
- Automatic detection of video format, PAL, SECAM, and NTSC coded material
- Add hotkeys to all essential functions for those with advanced remotes
- Calibrate Cards to give best set of video adjustments
- Investigate the following Color Filtering options:
- Role of SC Loop and AGC and CAGC values on video noise and edge sharpness
- See if it is possible to add CTI (Color Transient Improvement) to dTV's filters?
- Peaking - The Bt879 enables four different peaking levels by programming the PEAK bit and HFILT bits in the SCLOOP register.
- Automatic Chrominance Gain Control - compensates for reduced chrominance and color-burst amplitudes
- Coring - The Bt879 video decoder can perform a coring function, in which it forces all values below a programmed level to be 0. This is useful because the human eye is more sensitive to variations in black images.
- Support extra tuner and sound chips, including cleanup of tv tuner support with integration of latest bttv developments
- Add Full Closed Captioning Support
- Check that TeleText works properly and move it to display on screen rather than in separate window
- Make code base more compatible with borland development tools
- Add support for Boeder PC Chatcam: BT848, composite + svideo, no tuner
- Improve 3:2 pulldown for poor quality sources...perhaps method to manually increase bitshift
- Specific mode for anime: manual selection, not part of autodetect
- Mark Rejhon will probably implement dynamic thresholds capability, including dynamic repeat count - lower mode switch latencies for clearer pictures fromDVD and LaserDisc.Eventually this could make 3:2 detection eventually MUCH more sensitive - maybe even sensitive enough to add code that detect and deinterlace random pulldown, especially cartoons and time-compressed shows.
Remember, dTV will always be a work in progress. We welcome feedback at the AVScience Forum and our developer mailing list!