DScaler -- Developers

| Developers

Additional developers are always needed for DScaler!

In only a short time, this project has garnered a large, loyal, active, and knowledgable user-base of videophiles. This project is making waves in the home theater industry! The project is currently in need of developers with a broad range of skills (C++, assembly, user interface, video internals, etc.). Your skills will be utilized immediately, as we seek to keep this extraordinary momentum going.

To get started on DScaler development browse through the source and check out some of the documents linked below and then introduce yourself to the developers mailing list.

Please refer to the bugs and Todo pages for the current task list (Note, these may be outdated. It's recommended to join the mailing list to keep yourself up to date!). If you think that you can take on a part of one of these tasks, everyone on the mailing list would love to hear from you.

DScaler is released under the GNU Public License. Browse the CVS repository and take a look at the code, then download the latest release source zipped. In addition to the latest release source, you may be interested in reviewing the latest beta source, updated from CVS four times daily (application, test deinterlace DirectShow module).

The source compiles under MS Visual C++ 6.0. The application has grown out of the GPL code base of MultiDec and MoreTV, two cable descrambling programs. By combining the GPL parts of both and extending them both, we were able to create a new legal totally open source project.

The individual source files are in the CVS Repository. To get check-out and check-in access, you will need to get cvs and to make a few configuration changes see the project CVS Instructions for more details. Please e-mail your Sourceforge username to the webmaster to be added to the project and for CVS check-out and check-in permission.

## Sourceforge Project Developer Links

Main Project page

Mailing List

Browse CVS Repository

Application Source Zip

Test Deinterlace DirectShow Module Source Zip

## Deinterlace Project Developer Resources

Mark Rejhon's Spec of His 3:2 Pulldown Algorithm.

John Adcock's PALMovie deinterlace plugin for bTV.

A chapter from Video Demystified dealing with the PAL, NTSC, and SECAM standards as well as Teletext and Closed-Captioning.

An explanation of the options available in the DScaler.ini file.

Conexant's Bt 8x8 register tools for Windows 9x.

## BT848 Links

BT878a page at Conexant

bttv - Linux Driver - Without this none of this would have been possible

FreeBSD bt848 Driver Project

## Sound Links

This FTP site contains documents on the MSP sound chips and Phillips and Temic tuners that would be useful for anyone looking to improve these areas. I only recently found this site and have had a quick look and found that most of the information you need should be buried in this lot.