On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:40:12PM +0300, Tomi Hautakoski wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, gb wrote:
> 
> > What I plan to do, is to run VDR with xine plugin, and use the tv output  
> > of the G400 to view DVB-S on my Widescreen TV...
> > (Ideally I would use fb0 as a regular console, and fb1 as video output).
> 
> I have the same goal but it seems to be hard to achieve it. My system is a 
> DVB-T budget, G400 with a scart-rgb cable from the 2. head to a 4/3 TV 
> and a normal VGA at the 1. head. With mplayer -vo dfbmga dvb://channel I 
> can watch dvb channels on my tv just fine and with vdr-xine plugin it's 
> possible to watch VDR on the XFree VGA. How to get the VDR image to TV is 
> yet unknown to me. =(
> 
> OT:
> Ville, do you think it would be possible to port the dfbmga stuff to xine? 

Anything is possible.

> There seems to be some sort of (outdated?) support in xine-ui for 
> directfb.

There's also the xine video provider in DirectFB-extra.

> There are 2 other "softplayer"plugins for VDR (softdevice and 
> softmpeg) with directfb support but atleast I can't get them to work, just 
> getting a green/blue screen on my TV. It's also hard to debug this because 
> atleast the console is frozen.

For debugging DirectFB TV out stuff I recommend XDirectFB or dfbterm on 
the primary head or ssh from another machine.

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Ville Syrj�l�
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