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.
Good question. Can someone start a survey on that? I would guess that there are two setups in most cases: 1. Dedicated box with limited GPU power. An on-board Intel chip is the mainly used. Some people have space to upgrade to a NVidia card, some have not. 2. Second-Head usage. In that case it is no problem to add a modern card. I guess in most cases NVidia cards are already present since they provide a good TV out. > My setup is stand-alone to an HD Rear Projection CRT TV. It's old, but > I got it for a deep discount from a friend and it was quite a step up > from the 27" SD CRT we used to have in the apartment. Besides, as old > as it is, it still looks GREAT. My Freevo runs on an Athlon XP1900+ > and a MiniATX of a similar vintage, with a Matrox G400 (I actually had > one already) and a PVR-250 for recording. And number 3 would be a G400 stand-alone box. Yes, the G400 provides the best TV out as far as I can tell. You could update to a NVidia card and replace the G400. It's not that much money, but I would prefer the G400, too. Survey question: how many people use this setup? Coding question for someone how has such a card some free time: how does clutter perform on SDL? > 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? You want to use the G400 output from mplayer and not the clutter solution. This is possible with the Freevo 2.0 design, but not on my todo list. Someone needs to write a video out solution bypassing our X based kaa.popcorn player wrapper. > 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. You van either have the overlay or G400 support. The overlay we use depends on clutter and using clutter to render the video. If you do that, you loose the cool G400 video output from mplayer and a NVidia card would look as good. > Yes, I know: "You need a new TV!" Not yet. Freevo 2.0 is not yet ready :) > Heck, my PC is on a 16:10 LCD display. That wasn't expensive. A brand > shiny new 16:9 LCD TV? They don't cost what they used to, but they're > still 10x the cost of this monitor. 22'' 16:10 LCD: around 200 EUR A _good_ 37'' TFT TV: around 600 EUR Not 10x the cost, "only" 3x the cost for a larger view. > In the end I suppose I just wanted to add my dissent to the poll. I > totally understand that new features are going to exceed the > capabilities of old hardware. I just question the complete and total > cutoff. I don't want to cut off old hardware, but we are only two developers. We have to draw a line somewhere to release Freevo 2.0 at some time. > Give me the 2.0 interface on my old hardware, and I'll be happy. Give me the man-power to do so and I'm happy to provide it. :) Dischi -- Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
