Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?

2004-01-30 Thread William Morgan
Excerpts (reformatted) from Zeratul's mail of 27 Jan 2004 (EST): I have freevo running on a G400 Max, and was wondering ... Why would you want to use directfb or dfbmga ? (just curious) Does it give you better performance or features than -vo mga ? I dunno. I was using directfb because that

[Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?

2004-01-26 Thread William Morgan
Hi all, I'm trying to get my g400 to do TV out with directfb. When I run mplayer with -vo dfgbmga, I get the following output: -- DirectFB v0.9.21 - (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2003

Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?

2004-01-26 Thread William Morgan
Excerpts (reformatted) from Youri van Gorselen's mail of 26 Jan 2004 (EST): There are definitely weird interactions with the Debian provision of /usr/include/linux (from the linux-kernel-headers package) and DirectFB 0.9.20, but even if I manually point /usr/include/linux and

Re: [Freevo-users] help with matrox g400 and directfb?

2004-01-26 Thread William Morgan
Excerpts (reformatted) from William Morgan's mail of 26 Jan 2004 (EST): Ah, thanks for the hint! I gave up on the CVS version and got DirectFB 0.9.20 to work, but it was difficult. I had to Incidentally, the directfb guys just provided a patch for getting MPlayer-1.0pre3 to work with CVS

[Freevo-users] building a freevo box from scratch---hardware choices

2004-01-14 Thread William Morgan
Hello all, I am planning to build a dedicated Freevo box from scratch. I'm trying to do it in less than US $650---the price of a new Tivo with a lifetime subscription. I would like comments on the hardware I'm thinking about. Is it too little? Too much? Known incompatibilities, etc? Here's the

Re: [Freevo-users] building a freevo box from scratch---hardware choices

2004-01-14 Thread William Morgan
Excerpts (reformatted) from Matthieu Weber's mail of 14 Jan 2004 (EST): My Athlon XP 2200+ uses 50% CPU when recording from TV using mencoder, lavcodec with B frames and vhq enabled in 512x384 and VBR MP3 audio. It uses 20% CPU with default Freevo encoding options, in the same format. How much