[vdr] Re: mplayer and tv out with a standart graphic card?

[Mike Pieper <mike@pieper-family.de>]

On Saturday 09 March 2002 00:26, you wrote:
> I think, if I can output the DiVX on the VGA card (with TV out) the
> problems are gone.
> Is here somebody, who makes this?
>
> Marco

Hi Marco,

I'm making this. I had the problems like you (CPU speed). Now I'm using a 
G400 with TV-out. The picture quality is very good (after some heavy patching 
of the matroxfb drivers; I've submitted patches to the matroxfb maintainer to 
control the TV-out parameters like brightness, contrast etc.).

Biggest problem is still the synchronisation when viewing vdr. With mplayer I 
rely on the mplayer mga drivers, which have problems with interlaced streams 
(files from vdr) but are very good with full frame material (like TV with 
only odd/even lines or DVD). With vdr I perform a resyncing to the correct 
frame which makes the picture perfect, but gives some distortions from time 
to time, which is not so nice. It's all difficult to set up.

I'm about to write some code to control mplayer/vdr niceley. This will be 
based on directFb and gtk. When running vdr the OSD is presented on the VGA 
card.

To get this solution working many patches are needed and it doesn't run 
stable yet. Therefore I don't want to "release" these things yet. But perhaps 
sometimes in the future :-).

Mike