OK, got video playback working in Linux after some agonizing flailing... Using an ATI AIW Rage 128 card for video and a separate Hauppage WinTV card for tuning.
The tricky part was the tv out. I couldn't get it to work AT ALL using virtually any trick... except that if I booted WITH the tv plugged into the tv-out port, I was able to mplayer -vo vesa without difficulty--but couldn't start in X. The only way I could start in X was to use the "vesa" driver--which worked fine, actually. And so now here I am, using freevo with X and the vesa driver on an overclocked Celeron 300 (OC'd to 450). But I can't watch TV, because it's choppy. Here's what's happening--freevo watching TV is fullscreen, but very very choppy (again, using the hauppage as in and the ati card as out). But if I watch TV (still under X11 and the vesa driver) using XawTV, it is silkysmooth--but when I go fullscreen, it only takes up a window in the middle of the screen, with black bars all around. Grr. Should I try using fbdev instead of x11/vesa? I'm a bit confused here. I'm wanting to use XMame as well, so it will have to play nice with SDL. But the ATI Rage 128 is pretty finicky about its tv-out. Anyone using one with tv-out that could give some advice? Of course, the sound is still screwy, but we're working on that in a separate message. -->VPutz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
