Re: [Freevo-users] mpeg decoder card question

2004-06-25 Thread skeeterskip
Well, I'm running media-box on Celeron 1.7GHz. I don't have any issues playing DVD's or any type of MPEG movies. They all work fine. My only problem is when I try and save TV shows, I lose frames and CPU usage is about 100%. I am just looking for alternative to expensive WinTV 250/350 cards.

Re: [Freevo-users] mpeg decoder card question

2004-06-25 Thread Matt McLeod
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:04:15 -0700, skeeterskip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking for alternative to expensive WinTV 250/350 cards. A less compute-intensive codec is probably the way to go. You should be able to save as high-bitrate MPEG-1 or MJPEG or any of a bunch of other things

[Freevo-users] Re: dvb questions

2004-06-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Matthieu Weber wrote: Btw, do you have programs in Germany which are subtitled with a SPU stream which is independant from the video stream (i.e. the player has to overlay the subtitles over the video before displaying) ? Don't know, I have to make some test recordings. I try to implement

[Freevo-users] Re: Freevo no seeing .ogg videos.

2004-06-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Barnowl wrote: Dishci- How can I tell freevo to how to 'see' .ogg files in the movie menu.I get a few movies in that format. Mplayer and Xine can both play them. ogg is audio, ogm is video. But if you want to add ogg files and you are using Freevo 1.5.0-rc3, just add

[Freevo-users] Better DVB support (C programmers needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, yesterday I played with three tv players supporting dvb to find the right one for Freevo. All players have problems I want to have removed. So here a list of what I found out: 1. mplayer + good output (many vo modules) + support to add infos on the screen with bmovl - no channel

[Freevo-users] dvb support in xine (was: Better DVB support)

2004-06-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Note: added Cc to Daniel. Maybe forward to xine-devel? Rob Shortt wrote: Dirk Meyer wrote: 2. xine + also a wide range of output - bad channel switching during runtime - no live pause - no seek back while watching Actually the input_pvr plugin in xine-lib does live pause and

Re: [Freevo-users] dvb support in xine

2004-06-25 Thread Rob Shortt
Dirk Meyer wrote: Rob Shortt wrote: Ok, about xine. One of my beefs about xine is how input_pvr is implimented. Using a ivtv or wintv pvr-2/350 card you can timeshift live tv in xine with a pretty OSD and it works. The problem here is they put this timeshifting layer right in the pvr plugin

Re: [Freevo-users] Better DVB support (C programmers needed)

2004-06-25 Thread Rob Shortt
Chris Griffiths wrote: I am working on a streamdev-client plugin for Freevo to talk to streamdev-server of VDR. Even without this I can watch TV from VDR through Freevo using mplayer and a URL for each channel. The only problem here is slow channel switching because mplayer wants to buffer

[Freevo-users] AUDIO devices totally ignored

2004-06-25 Thread Justin Wetherell
These settings seem to be totally ignored. I have two sound cards installed, one for recording (dsp0) and one for listening (dsp1), but whatever values I use in the setting below seemed to be ignored. It uses dsp0 no matter what. AUDIO_DEVICE= '/dev/dsp1' # e.g.: /dev/dsp0,