Duncan Webb wrote:
Philip Armstrong wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:07:38AM +0000, Duncan Webb wrote:
Philip Armstrong wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:53:00AM +0000, Duncan Webb wrote:
Is is possible to use the S-Video output from a Hauppague PVR-350
card?
From reading
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto&highlight=tvout
it looks like just a question of spitting mpeg2 data at /dev/videoXX
having twiddled the right bits with ivtvfbctl.
Hacking freevo to do this should be a quick job. Mostly just setting
the right commands in the freevo local.conf for playing files.
Still not sure how to configure mplayer or xine to use the
Framebuffer, or for that matter freevo.
That's good news. Question: is freevo still running on X, the last
part of the howto has a set-up for XFree86.
Freevo 1.5.x runs on SDL, so any SDL target is fine. Presumably you
can point freevo at the relevant framebuffer. Use the directfb SDL
backend maybe?
That's a good suggestion, but running dfbinfo on /dev/fb1 I'm getting:
(*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.
---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
(c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH
(c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH
-----------------------------------------------------------
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2005-10-30 10:51)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using SSE optimized memcpy()
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 15650)...
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Could not mmap the framebuffer!
--> Invalid argument
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
--> Initialization error!
(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: Initialization error!
Which I think means the framebuffer does not support mmap.
It seems that the ivtv-fb modules does not support mmap so it doesn't
support SDL or directfb, which is a shame.
However, I have got it to work using the ivtv-xdriver and setting the
display to use "xv", works quite well TV quality is fine.
The only problem is that it is a bit too demanding for slower machines
such as a Pentium III 733MHz. TV is no problem but movies don't run
smoothly.
Should really say that I've set-up two machines, a P3 with a matrox card
for testing and an AMD64 Venice with a Asus ATI PCIE card. Really wanted
to use similar configuration but looks like this is not going to work out.
Regards,
Duncan
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