Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being fired out from mythfrontend either (I log all the output just in case) Myth doesn't support the use of the Em8300 based cards, so no matter what you enable it would not be used. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
On 5/9/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being fired out from mythfrontend either (I log all the output just in case) Myth doesn't support the use of the Em8300 based cards, so no matter what you enable it would not be used. It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). It is highly likely though you may get accelerated mpeg2 playback in xine (one of the output options). I have one of these lying around so may have a go and see where I get to. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
On Monday 09 May 2005 19:31, Nick wrote: It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. It is highly likely though you may get accelerated mpeg2 playback in xine (one of the output options). I have one of these lying around so may have a go and see where I get to. It is even possible to play other vidoe formats through the card using xine (mplayer also). These video's will be reencoded on the fly to mpeg1 and than send to the mpeg decoder on the card. It is possible to get a menu kind of system also on this card using mms http://mms.sunsite.dk/ regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
you enable it would not be used. It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display As far as I know there are no X drivers for displaying X on the TV out of this card (VGA pass through is not the same as outputting to the TV) except for some experimental stuff I wrote a while back which never got finished. (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). It is highly likely though you may get accelerated You could certainly get Xine or Mplayer to use the EM8300 based cards for display. At one point I had a modified myth running that would use the em8300 for playback only (not menus or X) on an old p166 I was using as a diskless frontend. I started working on displaying X on it when I got an MediaMVP which I now use to replace that frontend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this in an efficient manner that anyone has found so far. And Sigma Designs is not very open to giving out information on the card. I keep meaning to take a stab at finishing what I was working on but time is not something I have in great abundance for projects like this. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
By selecting hardware accelleration, I am presuming that you are referring to either the PVR-350 TV-Out, or using hardware XvMC (the only two options that I could find). The PVR-350 output definitely won't work (unless the EM8300 board makes itself look like a PVR-350, using the same device names and having the same ioctl calls), and as far as I'm aware, XvMC is only supported for VIA Unichrome and the nVidia XvMC drivers. The person who has this system (http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_pvrent.php?systemid=poptix) might be able to help you. He claims to be using a Sigma Designs Hollywood+ for his graphics. -- Joe --- Gavin Haslett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone any experience and pointers with using an EM8300 card (Sigma Hollywood Plus decoder) with MythTV. Seems to me this might be a good match for my decoding requirements. So far the modules load, the firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being fired out from mythfrontend either (I log all the output just in case) Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
