[vdr] Re: using VGA / YUV output from vdr

[Marko Myllymäki <marko.myllymaki@sci.fi>]

I believe, that you are talking about video-projector and not the one, that
they use on StarTrek? ;).

I am planning to acquire on of those beamers aswell and connect it directly
to the AGP card. There should be an DVI connector on it, so used Matrox G400
should be fine.

Matrox G400 (G100/G200, etc) has DirectFB support pretty much implemented
( http://www.directfb.org/ ), which can be used from VDR by using plugin
"Softdevice" ( http://www.k13zoo.de/vdr/ ).

With these I believe, that is should be possible to even use HDTV
resolutions, if the beamer has enough pixels.

I do not have G400 yet so I do not have any idea how to enable DVI output on
Linux or set correct resolution on it. If anyone has knowledge of this,
please do tell me (us).

Using higher resolution then 768x576, would require a configuration to
"Softdevice" plugin, perhaps an automatic switch according to channel which
is tuned to work properly. The plugin seems to be in it´s infancy at the
moment, but joined contacting to the author might have positive effects to
implement these requests.

I was able to see picture on monitor using G200 and softdevice with Directfb
drivers.

Br.
Marko Myllymäki

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johannes Schoeller" <schoeller@izeman.net>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:19 PM
Subject: [vdr] using VGA / YUV output from vdr


> hi ppl
>
> as i now own a new beamer that can handle 1280x720 i'd like to connect it
to
> my vdr pc in an appropriate way ;)
>
> everything like s-video (or even worse fbas) it not what i want.
>
> for watching dvds progressive i'd need to connect my beamer via vga or dvi
> (or yuv). afaik the only device that can deliver that is a "normal" pc
> graficscard. (that is installed anyway - just in case you have to do
> something on that machine that can't be done via ssh).
>
> there is no x11 or anything like that installed on the pc. it is for vdr
> only.
>
> i read all about that xine-plugin (and also saw many more plugins with an
> "x" included in the name *g* on klaus' homepage), but am not really sure
if
> that is what i'm looking for.
>
> pls enlight me ;)
>
> thanks
>
> servus hannes!
>
> Johannes Schoeller
> <schoeller@izeman.net>
>
>
>
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