Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:35:11PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of moving up.

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 14:41 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Take a look at these patches: http://lowbyte.de/vga-sync-fields/ I believe they are useful also for HDMI/HD stuff. I haven't tried them yet myself. :) I'm very familiar with this patches - Thomas and I spent many hours trying

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Gavin Hamill ha escrit: My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of moving up. Right now I have an EPIA 800MHz

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Gavin Hamillg...@acentral.co.uk wrote: My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
And what DVB cards that support HD and are supported by current kernel drivers are in favorites now? I have a few VDR boxes and all of them now are using Nvidia cards and vdpau. I output the audio/video to my nice fancy tv with DVI-HDMI cables. It works great. I'm not sure what you're

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
Luca Olivetti wrote: Again, I cannot tell about hdmi (though I think I'd get similar results), but on my laptop screen sd content is upscaled acceptably by xine-vdpau (the scaling and deinterlacing is done in hardware with vdpau). Horizontally scrolling text is not very good IMO. Is the

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Andrey Kuzminmailli...@egodot.net wrote: And what DVB cards that support HD and are supported by current kernel drivers are in favorites now? I don't keep a list of dvb cards drivers but you should know that dvb cards don't care if you're watching sdtv, hdtv,

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
I don't keep a list of dvb cards drivers but you should know that dvb cards don't care if you're watching sdtv, hdtv, or whatever else. They don't care if the stream is mpeg2, mpeg4, etc. The only thing that is important is whether or not your dvb card supports the method the stream is

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrey Kuzminmailli...@egodot.net wrote: So old WinTV Nexus DVB-S is enough for those experiments? As long as it supports the modulation fec of your provider, yup. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Seppo Ingalsuo ha escrit: Is the laptop LCD refreshed at 60 Hz? According to nvidia-settings yes Bye -- Luca ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of moving up. Right now I have an EPIA 800MHz quiet PC with the Technotrend