Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
--On Monday, December 08, 2003 07:43:19 +0100 Paul Sijben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my EPIA-M mostly working with freevo. See my site http://www.xs4all.nl/~octavo/ps2 for details. I am using a recent version of the VIA drivers and they work well with Xv. small question concerning the epia-m setup. i have the problem that XFree always starts with a tv resolution of 640x480 when i have no crt plugged in. if i have a crt plugged in it starts with 800x600 like i said in the screen section in XF86Config-4. any idea how i can force the xfree 4.4 driver to use 800x600 as resolution as i won't have my crt plugged in. -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Monday, December 8, 2003, 1:27:33 PM, Benjamin wrote: small question concerning the epia-m setup. i have the problem that XFree always starts with a tv resolution of 640x480 when i have no crt plugged in. if i have a crt plugged in it starts with 800x600 like i said in the screen section in XF86Config-4. any idea how i can force the xfree 4.4 driver to use 800x600 as resolution as i won't have my crt plugged in. try to load X with Option NoDDCValue in Device section -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
hello robert, --On Monday, December 08, 2003 13:44:12 +0100 Robert Winder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try to load X with Option NoDDCValue in Device section it doesn't seem to have any effect. what does your monitor section look like? maybe it should contain Option DPMS. however, commenting it out and pasting the modelines from the via binary driver didn't help as well. my device section looks like this now: Section Device Identifier via cle266 Driver via VendorName Via BoardName cle266 Option TVTypePAL Option ActiveDevice CRT,TV Option TVOutput S-Video Option TVVScan over Option NoDDCValueTrue EndSection -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
hello again, --On Monday, December 08, 2003 14:02:44 +0100 Benjamin Zeiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it doesn't seem to have any effect. what does your monitor section look like? maybe it should contain Option DPMS. however, commenting it out and pasting the modelines from the via binary driver didn't help as well. nevermind. it works now. it seems the monitor section needed to have the modelines and the option dpms enabled at the same time or so. -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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
RE: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Looks good! I'm getting the M1 with a Casetronics C137 I'm coupling this with Hauppage's WinPVR-350 Haven't made my decision about distro's yet (and since I suck at all things Linux, I'll be spending a LOT of time on here). Cheers, dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sijben Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo I got my EPIA-M mostly working with freevo. See my site http://www.xs4all.nl/~octavo/ps2 for details. I am using a recent version of the VIA drivers and they work well with Xv. I need to spend some more time getting everything completely configured in freevo (and get rid of a memory leak). Paul Rob Shortt wrote: Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) Ok, here goes... The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 open source X driver. -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but either way I think you will find features missing here. -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of applications support is as an output method. -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its Xv support sucks / is broken. -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an output method. I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for the epia that I used. -Rob --- 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 --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
I've had good luck with Redhat (Now Fedora Core). Slick installer and lots of extra setup tools. Dave Graham wrote: Looks good! I'm getting the M1 with a Casetronics C137 I'm coupling this with Hauppage's WinPVR-350 Haven't made my decision about distro's yet (and since I suck at all things Linux, I'll be spending a LOT of time on here). Cheers, dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sijben Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo I got my EPIA-M mostly working with freevo. See my site http://www.xs4all.nl/~octavo/ps2 for details. I am using a recent version of the VIA drivers and they work well with Xv. I need to spend some more time getting everything completely configured in freevo (and get rid of a memory leak). Paul Rob Shortt wrote: Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) Ok, here goes... The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 open source X driver. -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but either way I think you will find features missing here. -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of applications support is as an output method. -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its Xv support sucks / is broken. -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an output method. I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for the epia that I used. -Rob --- 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 --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
I got my EPIA-M mostly working with freevo. See my site http://www.xs4all.nl/~octavo/ps2 for details. I am using a recent version of the VIA drivers and they work well with Xv. I need to spend some more time getting everything completely configured in freevo (and get rid of a memory leak). Paul Rob Shortt wrote: Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) Ok, here goes... The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 open source X driver. -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but either way I think you will find features missing here. -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of applications support is as an output method. -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its Xv support sucks / is broken. -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an output method. I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for the epia that I used. -Rob --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Gray, Tim wrote: I'm betting it's like the dxr3 No, its quite different, it needs a mpeg video stream not a multiplexed mpeg video and audio stream. and takes a stream with video and audio. -Rob will mplayer strip the audio and send only the video to the device? -Original Message- From: James Oakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On December 3, 2003 03:06 pm, Bart Heremans wrote: I will say it like this : You won't be able to play anything with player or xine on the pvr-350 tvout. there are no plugins yet. If you wan't to playa a mpeg 2 stream you can feed the mpeg 2 encoder like this : dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=32k (or something like that, don't remember it exactly) /dev/video0 = viedeo tuner /dev/video16 = mpeg encoder But mplayer file.mpeg -vo /dev/video16 or something like that won't work. and without the encoder all files are extremly slow. If you can just dump MPEG into the device, this should work: mencoder videofile -of mpeg -o /dev/video16 - -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zqWrKtn0F7+/lLMRAsFFAKDAOC3Qmxyn+JnV6H3htdmpOrxaWgCdEpGF t/AMOHWXKJVAVQ2Est6AvZs= =YXUy -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- 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
[Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Any help would be appreciated. cheers, dave -- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
hi, --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 13:20:15 + Dave Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. i have a friends epia-m computer standing right next to my laptop and he waits for me to finish it freevo-wise. i'm having quite some trouble with it since i insisted on using debian as distribution. currently there are two (or maybe three) possibilities to make freevo get something on the tv-out. 1) directfb 2) plain framebuffer? 3) xfree+sdl+mplayer -vo xv my trouble is that using the -epia kernel (btw. epia linux howto: http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/epia/epia_howto/t1.html and the linux area at the www.viaarena.com forum are the two best resources i know) the viafb frambuffer module segfaults when i try the TVOn=1 argument. the directfb team is developing their own fork from the viafb module. i tried the viafb module from the directfb project along with a recent cvs checkout of directfb and this viafb module segfaults even without any argument. so directfb/framebuffer solution is probably not quite ready for primetime. plain framebuffer suffers under the same segfault problem. directfb needs viafb in order to work. i couldn't :( the xfree solution basically should work. however, i have the problem that xfree works nicely even with overscan tv-out etc., but the XV video output just doesn't work. i get some strange white bars and some flickering pixels and thats it. -vo x11 -fs -zoom works, but i find it silly not to use hardware acceleration on such a small machine. maybe somebody has a hint for me on how to get xv work. btw. if you want to save some work you might want to use google and find freepia. it's a linux distribution for epia and freevo based on red-hat. it could spare you a whole lot of work. i didn't bother, because i don't like redhat. whatever article you plan to write. there are already plenty of resources for epia-m and linux. you might want to consider whether it makes sense to spend time on work already done. the problem is not missing articles, but quality drivers/kernel modules that make all sorts of trouble. however, if you plan to use the pvr350 anyway, it might be possible for you to use the pvr350 tv-out. i'm not sure whether this works already. then everything should be more or less straightforward... -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) Ok, here goes... The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 open source X driver. -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but either way I think you will find features missing here. -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of applications support is as an output method. -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its Xv support sucks / is broken. -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an output method. I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for the epia that I used. -Rob --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
I've been using epia M for quite a while with no problems. I had to add a line to the mplayer command to resample at 48000hz, but other than that its been excellent. David On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:38, Rob Shortt wrote: Hi, Dave Graham wrote: Does anyone have Via's EPIA-M working with freevo? I starting to put I have an epia-m 10k as well, but it isn't in a system yet. However, I have set up two itentical Freevo systems with this board and they a working really well. Their owners are quite pleased with them and I must say the first one I built put a huge smile on my face. together a project system for an article and will be using the EPIA-M 1 (CLE266 northbridge; Nehemiah 1ghz processor) along with a Hauppage PVR-350. Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) Ok, here goes... The most important thing regrding the epias is how you configure your tv-out / video / display. Right now I beleive you have the choice of using: plain framebuffer, directfb, VIA closed source X driver, XFree86 open source X driver. -plain framebuffer driver: VIA released a fb driver, I'm not sure how good it is. I don't know if there's an open source alternative here but either way I think you will find features missing here. -directfb: Directfb does some things very good, one of them is tv-out. Getting this to work could tke a bit of messing around but the quality may be great. A major drawback to using directfb is that not a lot of applications support is as an output method. -VIA X driver: This is the closed source driver released by VIA. They release it in a package tailored for RedHat based systems and there are binary kernel modules build against specific kernels. This is a pain in the ass if you roll your own kernel or don't use RedHat. The advantage to this driver is that it supports some of the mpeg2 decoding capabilities of the CLE266. A disadvantage to this driver is that its Xv support sucks / is broken. -XFree86 X driver: This is the open source driver and the one I chose. I am using a recent CVS snapshot. This driver doesn't support the mpeg decoding functions of the CLE266 like the VIA driver does but its Xv support is pretty good. Many applications support using Xv as an output method. I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. If you would like more details on my setup just let me know and I will provide you with links to any guides I followed or kernel patches for the epia that I used. -Rob --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. I'll prolly be using the PVR-350's output since i drive all this stuff through a Denon home theatre system. I'll be putting a 160gb Maxtor DMPlus 9 (surplus stuff..wish the Epia supported S-ATA) Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) well, i suck at the whole linux thing...so, i'll be asking MUCHO questions. :-) cheers, dave --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
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. If you want to watch tv you have to switch the local and global lpha values (mythtv does this automatic). I'm using the epiaM tv output for freevo right now. The pvr350 tv out is better but I didn't solve my problem for watching divx and other files. - Original Message - From: Dave Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo Nice! Which will you be using for the tv-out, the PVR-350 or the epia's onboard stuff? The systems I built are using a PVR-250 to I am using the epia's tv-out and CLE266. These machines also have a 120 Gb 8 Mb buffer western digital drive and LG dvd-rom, the cases are VIA sereniti 2000. I'll prolly be using the PVR-350's output since i drive all this stuff through a Denon home theatre system. I'll be putting a 160gb Maxtor DMPlus 9 (surplus stuff..wish the Epia supported S-ATA) Any help would be appreciated. No problem at all, don't be afraid to ask questions. :) well, i suck at the whole linux thing...so, i'll be asking MUCHO questions. :-) cheers, dave --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
hi rob, --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:38:50 -0400 Rob Shortt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. does this mean that the Xfree 4.4 via driver supports the tv stuff which is also found in the binary driver minus hardware mpeg2 decoding? i hesitated to build the 4.4 snapshot for two reasons: code freeze for 4.4 is really soon and i wanted to wait for the final thing and i wasn't sure whether the xfree via driver supported the tv stuff as well. -- Benjamin Zeiss --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
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. If you want to watch tv you have to switch the local and global lpha values (mythtv does this automatic). I'm using the epiaM tv output for freevo right now. The pvr350 tv out is better but I didn't solve my problem for watching divx and other files. I'm not really going to use this for much else but recording TV shows and watching them later. That's it...I don't care too much about the Divx side of things. cheers, dave --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
I will say it like this : You won't be able to play anything with player or xine on the pvr-350 tvout. there are no plugins yet. If you wan't to playa a mpeg 2 stream you can feed the mpeg 2 encoder like this : dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=32k (or something like that, don't remember it exactly) /dev/video0 = viedeo tuner /dev/video16 = mpeg encoder But mplayer file.mpeg -vo /dev/video16 or something like that won't work. and without the encoder all files are extremly slow. Bart - Original Message - From: Dave Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo 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. If you want to watch tv you have to switch the local and global lpha values (mythtv does this automatic). I'm using the epiaM tv output for freevo right now. The pvr350 tv out is better but I didn't solve my problem for watching divx and other files. I'm not really going to use this for much else but recording TV shows and watching them later. That's it...I don't care too much about the Divx side of things. cheers, dave --- 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
Benjamin Zeiss wrote: hi rob, --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:38:50 -0400 Rob Shortt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pleased with the performance of the open source X driver for the epia. I am running Debian Sid (unstable), self patched built kernel, and XFree86 CVS snapshot. I am using both mplayer and xine (using xv video output methods of each) and the playback of everything from divx to dvd is just fine. I am running X with a resolution of 720x480 with overscan. does this mean that the Xfree 4.4 via driver supports the tv stuff which is also found in the binary driver minus hardware mpeg2 decoding? i hesitated to build the 4.4 snapshot for two reasons: code freeze for 4.4 is really soon and i wanted to wait for the final thing and i wasn't sure whether the xfree via driver supported the tv stuff as well. I don't have a list of each of their features but it supports tv-out just fine. -Rob --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Via's EPIA-M and Freevo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On December 3, 2003 03:06 pm, Bart Heremans wrote: I will say it like this : You won't be able to play anything with player or xine on the pvr-350 tvout. there are no plugins yet. If you wan't to playa a mpeg 2 stream you can feed the mpeg 2 encoder like this : dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=32k (or something like that, don't remember it exactly) /dev/video0 = viedeo tuner /dev/video16 = mpeg encoder But mplayer file.mpeg -vo /dev/video16 or something like that won't work. and without the encoder all files are extremly slow. If you can just dump MPEG into the device, this should work: mencoder videofile -of mpeg -o /dev/video16 - -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zqWrKtn0F7+/lLMRAsFFAKDAOC3Qmxyn+JnV6H3htdmpOrxaWgCdEpGF t/AMOHWXKJVAVQ2Est6AvZs= =YXUy -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- 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
