Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 11:39:10 PM, Rob wrote: > Dave Graham wrote: >>>"Bart Heremans" wrote: >>> >>>>I have a epia M and a PVR350. >>>>I have been able to run X over the framebuffer driver for the pvr350 and >>>>load freevo. But If try loading a divx or other file and output it with >>>>mplayer ont the pvr350 it is very very slow. >>> >>>So you use the pvr350 aus tv out? That works? Isn't it a dvb card? It >>>should be possible to use the framebuffer stuff for Freevo and use the >>>dvb output for mplayer and xine. >>> >>>Dischi
> The PVR-350 is an analog tv card, not DVB. The only thing it has in > common with DVB cards is that most DVB cards also have an mpeg2 decoder > and tv-out. You can't playback mpeg2 with mplayer's dvb support with a > PVR-350. > I think the only way to playback using mplayer or xine would be through > the framebuffer or x11, both of which will be slow as hell. I am kind > of surprised that neither of those apps support the 350's output yet. Arpi from the mplayer project is waiting for "better" YUV output support in the ivtv driver. Migual Freitas from the xine project is willing but only has a pvr-250. Donations are welcome he said :) >> I was actually curious about that too. The way i see it, the PVR-350 is >> able to do all the MPEG2 encode/decode onboard without much overhead. >> Since i want to run this directly through the PVR-350 (and am using the >> mini-itx solely for it's size and power to drive the card), will i still >> run into streaming problems? > It would be a fun project to wite a player for the PVR-350. This could > be done in python an integrated right into Freevo. It should be trivial > to create a basic player but I don't have the hardware to work on (not > that I have lots of free time either!). Indeed :) but the way i see it is that the ivtv-fb driver runs in OSD mem of the pvr-350 card. Meaning display manager is loaded in the framebuffer and due to it's limitation's as it is not a grahpic card it hasn't got enough umph to playback any other video format like divx. The only way to support this is to load freevo in OSD, no problem, then when encoder/decoder kicks in OSD must be disabled and let it flow through the tv-out. When exiting, OSD is enabled again hence the window manager. IIRC this is how Myth does it. Is this what you meant Rob or are there other approaches ? ------------------------------------------------------- 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
