I have been working with this chip to convert video from a camera (NTSC output) I spoke with someone from here before about compressing the signal but I'm just going to use a high speed USB module to connect to My laptop but what I'm really concerned with is this:
1) The output is 8 bits plus sync signals, how do I change the number of bits per pixel and such? I wanna be able to control this. So if the output is 8 bits, does that mean it's an 8 bit video signal? and is it 8 bit greyscale or ugly 8 bit video lol
2) Is there a way to reduce the FPS from 30 fps to 15 or 12 fps, etc. I can control the rate at which I obtain the frames through OpenCV but how do I let the chip know to slow down?
3) I'm trying to hook up the chip directly to the FTDI module, since the MicroP I'm using can't handle that speed. All I'm using the microP for i guess is the I2C programming.
Micro is a TI piccolo 60Mhz crystal. FTDI chip is the FT232H (480Mbps). TVP5150AM1 for ntsc decoding.