Official RadianceXD support thread - Page 5

Originally Posted by Dave G

Yeah... Mike's the first, but I'm anticipating a growing chorus of Radiance users asking for bar detection instead of relying on the flag . I'm wondering if it's been done successfully before?

Originally Posted by Mike_WI

Interesting...a bunch of FW updates on the XD site say "Production" but on the XE (beta) site are "Beta" (with the last two listed as Production).

Originally Posted by alexsquared

Any thoughts on how the auto detect AR will work on movies like TDK? I'm assuming it will shift back and forth throuth the film?

Originally Posted by Mike_WI

Hmm...

I have it.
I should test it, but too late tonight...
Anyone else have reports on the auto detect?

Mike


EDIT - 7/22/09
Anyone have a list of time stamps for the aspect ratio (AR) changes in The Dark Knight (TDK)?
I tried searching AVS and some specific threads, but I couldn't find them.
I watched part of TDK last night as I was doing some audio calibrating, but didn't notice or view the right areas (??) to pick up on the variable AR transitions +/- auto detection from Lumagen.

Originally Posted by Dave G

New firmware is up, and again - new functionality! This time, output modes auto detect. I'm not entirely clear on it works, but I think it just tries to find a match by reading your current output config and comparing it to what the display on one output is sending (EDID). If there is no match then it tries the other output. I think - haven't tried it.

Direct download link

Originally Posted by Mike_WI

Dave -

If you can, would you please expand on what this means?


Also, I noted that the XE FW update link is now online (not hidden):
Support page
XE link

Cool.



Mike

Originally Posted by alexsquared

I don't know the time stamps, but i believe right at the beginning, it is wide open as it's panning in over the city, and then cuts to 2.35:1. I believe one of the best resources to ask about time stamps would be Josh Zyber (member Josh Z). Curious to see what you find.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by SOWK

Production 071309- Added new automatic display mode for output. This mode will configure your output based on information read from the display. The 2 automatic modes are called "auto_p1" and "auto_p2". Since there are 2 output ports you can choose which one is given priority for setting the mode, so with "auto_p1", output1 is checked first for a valid mode, then output 2, and if neither has a valid mode then 480p is used.

Mike: This is used to read from the display its supported resolutions and Refresh Rates (htz).


Example:

Lumagen will receive information from the JVC RS20 that it supports

480i

480P

720P

1080i

1080P

24htz

60htz

Things of this nature. You already have yours locked to output: 1080P 24htz and 60htz. This is a better situation as the lumagen doesn't have to poll for this information and predict the best output mode.

Originally Posted by Dave G

I didn't do much this time around The Planar is pretty spot on out of the box...

Originally Posted by funlvr1965

It was good to see you again anyway, oh by the way I have the Oppo bluray doing 444 out of the player and out of the Lumagen, recommendations of Kris Deering, I will let you how that goes once I get a few flicks going

Originally Posted by Mike_WI

Wayne -

FYI.

In the Oppo 83 thread Craig Rounds recommended 4:2:2.
See his explanation -- link.

Enjoy.

Mike

Originally Posted by Dave G

Hmm, I'm not sure what the color format would have to do with deinterlacing, but don't forget that your XE is sitting between the Oppo and the Planar. It sounds like Kris was speaking as if the Oppo's feed would go directly into the Planar.

The XE will introduce additional conversions regardless, so you want to give it the signal closest to what's on the disc, and Mike is right - that would be 4:2:2. You should set the Oppo to output 4:2:2 for sure, regardless of whether you're watching DVD or BD.

However you can set the output format from the XE to the Planar as 4:4:4;

Menu->Output->Configs->(select active configuration, presumably Config0)->HDMI Format->Type - select 444.

Don't forget to save.

Originally Posted by Mike_WI

Dave -

Thank you for clarifying.
I'm not smart enough to know what is the right thing to do, but I do know whom to link/reference.

Wayne, does that make sense?

4:2:2 for Oppo -> Radiance -> projector
4:4:4 for Oppo -> projector (no Radiance)

Mike