Amiga HDMI with a Raspberry Pi! (RGBtoHDMI)

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• SR

  @srfrg9707 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Hi Jan. The colors issue you have with your capture card is because HDMI has two modes : RGB and YUV (also refered as YCbCr) Apparently your Raspberry and the capture card are not set to the same mode. To be more accurate, the Rpi procuces an RGB picture but your capture card waits for it as an YCbCr one that&apos;s why black (0,0,0 in RGB mode) appears as green (0,0,0 in YCbCr mode).<br><br>Your LIP monitor, on the other hand, adapts itself to whatever mode you throw at it.<br>I guess the sound does not come out from the hdmi port, does it?

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• RE

  @RetroSwim · 5 years ago

  Great video!!<br><br>The creativity of people getting better video out of old systems never ceases to amaze me.

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• ME

  @MegaManNeo · 5 years ago

  Another great way to use Pi Zeros and make Amiga computers HDMI capable without too much expense.<br>Also I love how you covered the first half of the monitor&apos;s manufacturer name so it says just LIPS.

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• HO

  @Horus9339 · 2 years ago

  I so much need this little board, I have an Amiga 500 in the loft that has not been used in over 20 years, I can hear it calling me as I type this message. Thank you for sharing your time with us.

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• SE

  @SeverityOne · 3 years ago

  What would also be nice would be a Raspberry Pi that captured an RGB signal and converted it into a virtual screen that you could access via, for example, Remote Desktop Connection. If a method were added to add keyboard and/or mouse signals, you could have a virtual KVM switch for old computers (and Roland samplers, the application I&apos;m thinking of).

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• JJ

  @jjimmyjameson · 5 years ago

  Jan...Seriously....This was an impressive piece of kit, and the video was fantastic. &nbsp;Thank You!

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• IM

  @ImaginationToForm · 5 years ago

  So cool that people keep making new things for these computers. I had C64, Amiga 1000, 2000.

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• NI

  @nil0bject · 5 years ago

  42 days without incident. memé lord!

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• EL

  @elmariachi5133 · 5 years ago (edited)

  So great there&apos;s finally some Amiga love! It still is a problem to run the classic games in their full glory todays. I fore sure didn&apos;t think an RasPi was able to do this in realtime, and even without annoying lag. An really rare effort in machine coding!<br>This solution of course still leaves room for improvement, like accurate pixel rendering with a 1084&apos;s look and such, but it for sure is a great achievement and some real progress!

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• RE

  @RetroAnachronist · 5 years ago

  This is soooo cool. I’ve got a dozen Pi Zero’s sitting around waiting for a cool use such as this. Totally going to do this.

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• XN

  @xnonsuchx · 5 years ago

  That default XP desktop background on his Mac always throws me for a second. ;-)

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• GA

  @GadgetUK164 · 5 years ago

  Very cool!!! &nbsp;Wasn&apos;t aware of this!

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