Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?
Excerpts (reformatted) from Zeratul's mail of 27 Jan 2004 (EST): I have freevo running on a G400 Max, and was wondering ... Why would you want to use directfb or dfbmga ? (just curious) Does it give you better performance or features than -vo mga ? I dunno. I was using directfb because that was the wisdom of the ancestors passed down to me. I just tried mga and I get a blank screen (though CPU usage seems roughly the same), so that's one reason. :) I'm sure the mplayer folks would be able to answer this question. -- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?
Hi all, I'm trying to get my g400 to do TV out with directfb. When I run mplayer with -vo dfgbmga, I get the following output: -- DirectFB v0.9.21 - (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2003 convergence GmbH --- (*) Single Application Core. (with MMX support) (2004-01-25 08:34) (*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using MMXEXT optimized memcpy() (*) DirectFB/InputDevice: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) MMX detected and enabled (*) DirectFB/GraphicsDevice: Matrox G400/G450/G550 0.6 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (!) DirectFB/Matrox/Maven: Error controlling `/dev/i2c-2'! -- Device or resource busy (!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 2! (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core! -- Resource in use (busy)! vo_dfbmga: DirectFBCreate() failed - Resource in use (busy)! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 which I compiled against a CVS version (yesterday's) of DirectFB---I couldn't get 0.9.20 to compile. This is on a stock 2.4.24 kernel (no multi patch applied) and /proc/bus/i2c looks like this: 2c-0 i2c DDC:fb0 #0 on i2c-matroxfb Bit-shift algorithm i2c-1 i2cDDC:fb0 #1 on i2c-matroxfb Bit-shift algorithm i2c-2 i2cMAVEN:fb0 on i2c-matroxfb Bit-shift algorithm Any ideas? I'd love to start using Freevo soon but I'm pretty stuck. (Incidentally I couldn't get matroxset to even compile... this is on a Debian testing machine.) Thanks in advance, -- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?
Excerpts (reformatted) from Youri van Gorselen's mail of 26 Jan 2004 (EST):
There are definitely weird interactions with the Debian provision of
/usr/include/linux (from the linux-kernel-headers package) and
DirectFB 0.9.20, but even if I manually point /usr/include/linux and
/usr/include/asm to the kernel 2.4.24 directories, I get compile
errors with 0.9.20.
That worked for me, with some minor changes. I think there were 3
stupid lines i had to uncomment. If u can post your error messages I
might be able to help u out.
Ah, thanks for the hint! I gave up on the CVS version and got DirectFB
0.9.20 to work, but it was difficult. I had to
a) replace the Debian-supplied headers in /usr/include/{linux,asm} with
the ones from 2.4.24; and
b) hide /usr/include/linux/wm97xx.h to prevent DirectFB from trying to
compile WM97xx Touchscreen support (no configure option for this afaik).
But then compiling it and MPlayer-1.0pre3 both works, and mplayer can
now play with -vo dfbmga:bes. Sweet!
Next question: in playing DVDs mplayer seems to take about 40% CPU (with
no sound---haven't gotten that working yet), but sometimes gives me the
your system is too SLOW to play this message. I'm running an Athlon
XP 2200 which, while not lighting speed, is surely sufficient to play a
DVD. Is this comparable to what you and others are getting?
Anways, thanks for your help,
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Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?
Excerpts (reformatted) from William Morgan's mail of 26 Jan 2004 (EST): Ah, thanks for the hint! I gave up on the CVS version and got DirectFB 0.9.20 to work, but it was difficult. I had to Incidentally, the directfb guys just provided a patch for getting MPlayer-1.0pre3 to work with CVS DirectFB (it was a very small naming problem), obsoleting all of my efforts. :) But hey, now it works (still). -- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] building a freevo box from scratch---hardware choices
Hello all, I am planning to build a dedicated Freevo box from scratch. I'm trying to do it in less than US $650---the price of a new Tivo with a lifetime subscription. I would like comments on the hardware I'm thinking about. Is it too little? Too much? Known incompatibilities, etc? Here's the list: * Shuttle SK41G. This thing is several years old now (has the VIA KM266 bridge) but is cheap. http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=285 * Athlon XP 1700 or 2400 or something in between. * Matrox G400 Max AGP card. This seems to have the best TV out support, am I right? * Hauppauge WinTV-Radio (#401). Has remote. * hard drive, dvd burner, 512mb ram, blah blah blah. Is this sufficient to, say, record incoming TV while watching something from disk or playing Oggs? Any obvious gotchas in hardware support in the above? Thanks, -- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] building a freevo box from scratch---hardware choices
Excerpts (reformatted) from Matthieu Weber's mail of 14 Jan 2004 (EST): My Athlon XP 2200+ uses 50% CPU when recording from TV using mencoder, lavcodec with B frames and vhq enabled in 512x384 and VBR MP3 audio. It uses 20% CPU with default Freevo encoding options, in the same format. How much of a difference is it going to make to get a, say, WinTV-PVR-250 instead of the WinTV-Radio? (I assume that the difference between these products just the hardware MPEG encoding, but I'm not certain.) Be careful, HDD can be noisy (Barracudas are very silent, though), but my DVD drive (not burner) is a pain in the ass from the point of view of noise. I've heard that recent DVD (and maybe CD) drives cannot be slowed down (using setcd -x or hdparm -E) as I intended to do. I'm thus looking for another DVD drive. Hm, good point. Does anyone have recommendations for cheap quiet DVD burners? They don't have to be fancy or fast. Thanks, -- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
