fsphil / hacktv

Analogue TV transmitter for the HackRF
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Add color field identification for SECAM #82

Closed Potomac closed 7 months ago

Potomac commented 2 years ago

Synchronization of SECAM color transmissions can be done in 2 ways, according to the website "World Analogue Television Standards and Waveforms" :

"Line identification" is used since december 1979 in France, but before december 1979 "field identification" was used, it would be great if hackTV can have "field identification" option for secam, such signal can be inserted in the VBI zone, and both methods can be transmitted simultaneously.

Having "field identification" option for hackTV will help owners of old Secam TV built in the 60's and 70's (France, and probably Russia), these old secam TV sets can display color only if field identification is present on VBI lines (9 "bottles"),

currently the only way to display color on these old secam TV set is to use a pal to secam transcoder with field identification recreation, this kind of device is not easy to find on ebay.

I provide as attached file documentation about field identification method (a PDF file, see secam chapter World Analogue Television Standards and Waveforms.pdf ).

fsphil commented 1 year ago

I've added an option --secam-field-id that attempts to do this. I have no hardware that can make use of this so it's completely untested.

Potomac commented 1 year ago

Great news :+1:

Thanks.