On Mon, January 26, 2009 7:04 am, James Trietsch wrote: > Well, this is a bit of a wet blanket. I'd like to add a question to the > survey: How many people are running Freevo as part of their ordinary PC > (I.E., second display/head while having their X desktop on the primary) > and how many are using a stand-alone box, hooked up to the living room TV > (or something similar)? I've always felt (and it's probably true) that > most people were in the former category, so all the talk of going to TFT > displays over CRT displays... does it apply to me? I'm not chomping at the > bit to run out and get a flat-screen TV.
I certainly run Freevo as a standalone box connected to a TV (only recently upgrade from a 20" CRT, yes 20, to a bigger LCD). The box is a VIA C7 mini-itx and as far as I can tell the 3D support is, well crap. Thankfully I do have a PCI slot spare so I'm hoping that if I do need a new card a Geforce 6xxx will be up to the task for freevo 2 and SD video. > <snip> > Now I'm currently using SDL/DFB to drive the video... Dischi said he > didn't know how well the clutter SDL backend would drive DFB. Assuming it > works, would the 2.0 interfaces run on a setup like mine? I'm not hot to > upgrade to HD recording/playback just yet (nothing HD to record except the > XBox 360) but I'm so excited about the 2.0 interface, especially the > ability to overlay graphics on the video playback. If it's just a matter > of my setup not supporting HD video, that's totally fine with me. I have > no way to pipe HD content to the TV from the Freevo anyway. The TV is > pre-HDMI/DVI and the VGA input is limited to 640x480. If you invest some time getting your system to run X, instead of DFB, the next release of 1.8.x will be able to do graphics over video (no alpha blending but still better than text that is a different size depending on what the resolution of the playback material is). Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
