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

["Marco" <marco@noope.de>]

Hi,

you wrote, you can see the vdr OSD in your fb device (VGA card). How do
you make this? How to output vdr on an other device than the dvb card?

Marco



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf
Of
> Mike Pieper
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:57 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: mplayer and tv out with a standart graphic card?
> 
> 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