Re: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?
I am using one in my setup right now. It displays teh menus and everything through the dxr3 (in my case, Hollywood RealMagic+). It is nice, because it fills up the entire TV screen as supposed to leaving black bars which I got with my TNT2 Ultra... The drawback to it is that everything must be converted to mpg to go out to the card, so some stuff doesn't play well on slower CPUs...I have a celery 500 at the moment, and TV was impossible, and some divxs don't play well. I have a pentium 3 800 that I haven't gotten around to putting into the machine yet that will hopefully solve the issues. The other problem is you lose keyboard input while mplayer is running...you need to get a remote control, which is kinda a pain. I don't think there is any way to code around that at all. All you can do with the keyboard is hit Ctrl-C to stop the movie, but it also kills freevo, so in my case I need to blindly hit up, enter to restart it. You could probably get around it by having a bash script that would restart freevo whenever it sensed that it died...You still won't be able to pause/fast forward/anything though... -stefan Mark Casey wrote: I've had this hollywood plus decoder card for ages and on the Freevo site it mentions you can use one for tv output. Does that mean it can display the freevo ui etc or does it just display decoded mpeg's etc. Kinda curious since it would be nice to use that for tv output instead of buying a graphics card capable of tv output. I have a spare voodoo 3 sitting around but that's vga out only. By my knowledge doesn't it display only the decoded mpeg video only? I wouldn't know since I've never used it with a tv, just ordered a s-video to scart connector for my tv though. :) Thanks Mark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Stefan Strandberg University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Systems Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?
Very clever. Some divx's don't play well? Surely encoding it as a mpeg stream in realtime would take up most of the cpu time, even on a p3 800? Gotta hand it to whoever thought of encoding it as a mpeg stream then sending it to the card, very ingenuis. Thanks for the info Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Strandberg Sent: 25 June 2003 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus? I am using one in my setup right now. It displays teh menus and everything through the dxr3 (in my case, Hollywood RealMagic+). It is nice, because it fills up the entire TV screen as supposed to leaving black bars which I got with my TNT2 Ultra... The drawback to it is that everything must be converted to mpg to go out to the card, so some stuff doesn't play well on slower CPUs...I have a celery 500 at the moment, and TV was impossible, and some divxs don't play well. I have a pentium 3 800 that I haven't gotten around to putting into the machine yet that will hopefully solve the issues. The other problem is you lose keyboard input while mplayer is running...you need to get a remote control, which is kinda a pain. I don't think there is any way to code around that at all. All you can do with the keyboard is hit Ctrl-C to stop the movie, but it also kills freevo, so in my case I need to blindly hit up, enter to restart it. You could probably get around it by having a bash script that would restart freevo whenever it sensed that it died...You still won't be able to pause/fast forward/anything though... -stefan Mark Casey wrote: I've had this hollywood plus decoder card for ages and on the Freevo site it mentions you can use one for tv output. Does that mean it can display the freevo ui etc or does it just display decoded mpeg's etc. Kinda curious since it would be nice to use that for tv output instead of buying a graphics card capable of tv output. I have a spare voodoo 3 sitting around but that's vga out only. By my knowledge doesn't it display only the decoded mpeg video only? I wouldn't know since I've never used it with a tv, just ordered a s-video to scart connector for my tv though. :) Thanks Mark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Stefan Strandberg University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Systems Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus?
well, it has only come up on a few episodes of The Tick and some other cartoons that I have...I haven't tried any real divx movies, since I buy everything I want on DVD anyways...not for moral reasons, but I hate not having 5.1 sound. I will probably stick that CPU in tonight and hope my motherboard supports it...if it works, I'll let you know how well the stuff that wasnt working well works with the new CPU. The preceding sentence was brought to you by the letter w. -stefan Mark Casey wrote: Very clever. Some divx's don't play well? Surely encoding it as a mpeg stream in realtime would take up most of the cpu time, even on a p3 800? Gotta hand it to whoever thought of encoding it as a mpeg stream then sending it to the card, very ingenuis. Thanks for the info Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Strandberg Sent: 25 June 2003 22:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Does anyone use the dxr3 or hollywood plus? I am using one in my setup right now. It displays teh menus and everything through the dxr3 (in my case, Hollywood RealMagic+). It is nice, because it fills up the entire TV screen as supposed to leaving black bars which I got with my TNT2 Ultra... The drawback to it is that everything must be converted to mpg to go out to the card, so some stuff doesn't play well on slower CPUs...I have a celery 500 at the moment, and TV was impossible, and some divxs don't play well. I have a pentium 3 800 that I haven't gotten around to putting into the machine yet that will hopefully solve the issues. The other problem is you lose keyboard input while mplayer is running...you need to get a remote control, which is kinda a pain. I don't think there is any way to code around that at all. All you can do with the keyboard is hit Ctrl-C to stop the movie, but it also kills freevo, so in my case I need to blindly hit up, enter to restart it. You could probably get around it by having a bash script that would restart freevo whenever it sensed that it died...You still won't be able to pause/fast forward/anything though... -stefan Mark Casey wrote: I've had this hollywood plus decoder card for ages and on the Freevo site it mentions you can use one for tv output. Does that mean it can display the freevo ui etc or does it just display decoded mpeg's etc. Kinda curious since it would be nice to use that for tv output instead of buying a graphics card capable of tv output. I have a spare voodoo 3 sitting around but that's vga out only. By my knowledge doesn't it display only the decoded mpeg video only? I wouldn't know since I've never used it with a tv, just ordered a s-video to scart connector for my tv though. :) Thanks Mark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Stefan Strandberg University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Systems Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
