Re: Kopete & video

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:49, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 19:18 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > One other thing - I note that there is no PAL setting in kopete.  I
> > set it to SECAM, but I haven't a clue what difference that makes.
> > ISTR that I tried both NTSC and SECAM, and neither seemed to make much
> > difference.
>
> They're video standards,

That much I knew -
> primarily for COMPOSITE video, though still 
> applicable to Y/C and maybe to YUV (but only as far as specify scan
> rate).  If you're using something like a USB webcam, such things have no
> meaning.

The rest I didn't.
> You'd only need to specify a video standard if you were using 
> a video camera through your capture card.

Yes, I do that, thanks.

Thanks for the explanation.

Anne