With my Xbox-Linux In-Car Freevo system working perfectly for over a year now, (http://www.target-earth.net), I thought it would be time to catch up with the latest release and give it a whirl on some old hardware I had spare.
CPU: Athlon XP 1700 RAM: 512Mb PC2100 HDD: 40GB Maxtor Diamondmax 8 GFX: ATI Rage 128 RF 32Mb GFX: Creative DXR3 (from the old Encore 6X DVD pack) SND: C-Media something-or-other NIC: RTL8139C DISPLAY: Svideo connection to PAL/PAL60 capable TV DISTRO: vanilla SuSE 8.0 Initially, I tried getting the TV out of the Rage 128 working, but anytime I changed video modes (i.e into X, or into vesa FB mode) the output would become disabled, even with 'atitvout' in .xinitrc to try and re-enable the screen - console mode was fine, however. Weird. Anyway, I gave up on that and came across my old DXR3 card - and after scanning back through the lists - found that it could now be used with SDL; the last time I tried using it in Linux was several years ago when the green screen problem hadn't been fixed. So, got SDL 1.2.6, ffmpeg and the em8300 drivers setup. Patches applied, configure.in edited, compiled, no problems! Mplayer works excellently with -vo dxr, and after managing to mess the version of SDL up in runtime/dll(!), so did Freevo - though I removed all of the mplayer command line options that Freevo passes to mplayer, instead relying on .mplayer/config ... for some reason, the oss://dev/em8300_ma-0 audio device was not getting passed to the mplayer slave process. So, I've got Freevo working great on the DXR3 svideo out, mplayer playing my music and vids over the same (and the em8300_ma-0 audio device). The problem that I have now, however, is that other SDL applications, like XMAME don't seem to like this DXR3 output device version of SDL. XMAME (0.77.1) in particular complains about 'SDL: Vidmode_8 in Video16', or words to that effect. For the life of me I can't seem find anyway around this problem... Any ideas? John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
