Re: [Freevo-users] [Slightly OT] LCD-TVs - what spec?

2006-06-13 Thread Joe Harris
Just to add my $0.02. I bought a Westinghouse 27" LCD back in January (http://www.westinghousedigital.com/pc-19-2-27-lcd-tv.aspx). I have had 2 different Freevo's plugged into it (as I had some drive issues on the first). I tried a few different resolution choices in the setup on the 1st box onl

Re: [Freevo-users] spdif out working for Xine but not Mplayer

2006-06-13 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:43 -0400, Mlists wrote: > with AC3 working for it. When I put a DVD in, however, mplayer just > gives static. Like its playing the AC3 digital data over the analog > speakers. Try putting this in ~/.mplayer/config: ac=hwac3,hwdts, Cheers, Jason. __

[Freevo-users] spdif out working for Xine but not Mplayer

2006-06-13 Thread Mlists
Hi all, I'm using Freevo with my vdr-xine-network setup and have spdif out with AC3 working for it.  When I put a DVD in, however, mplayer just gives static.  Like its playing the AC3 digital data over the analog speakers.  I haven't found any successful switches to use for this -- any sugge

Re: [Freevo-users] [Slightly OT] LCD-TVs - what spec?

2006-06-13 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:00 -0400, Andrew Jergens wrote: > I think you're talking apples and oranges. Scaling from a 8??x480p source Apples and oranges inasmuch as I'm talking about scaling down (settop DVD player for an anamorphic DVD on a 4/3 TV, so from 480 lines to about 360 lines) versus sca

Re: [Freevo-users] [Slightly OT] LCD-TVs - what spec?

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Jergens
HOLD THAT THOUGHT... > Almost all of the settop DVD players I've looked at use very ugly > scaling. Not quite as bad as nearest neighbor, but you can definitely > see jagged edges and moire effects that can be alleviated with better > algorithms. Using mplayer with software scaling produces visi