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

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

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 00:35, you wrote:
> the VDR. What are you dreaming of?
I want to display some other information. I would like to integrate a simple 
mail reader, a web browser (as soon as mozilla is using GTK+-2.0 this will be 
easy) and perhaps a video conferencing application.

> What graphic card do you have? Matrox Millenium G200 Dual Head with TV
> out?
> I want to buy the same card like you.
I'm using a G400 Dual Head now. Before I was using a G200. The G400 is better 
but more expensive. Better means it supports more video formats. Right now, 
this extra video format isn't used, but one can never know ...

> I think the playback of recordings are made by the DVB card and send to
> the VGA card. Is there a way to playback the recordings directly to the
> VGA card?
> If you do this, it is a bugfix ;) for the CAM hangup error.
Yes, I'm using VDR for everything what has to do with video (TV, DVD). The 
exception are only avi-files which are displayed with mplayer. VDR recordings 
and live TV is taken from the v4l device in grab mode and sent to the 
graphics card. This costs some CPU time, but the load is still not so high as 
when you play avi with mplayer via DVB-card.
One could think about playing VDR recordings via mplayer, but the problem is 
that the quality is not so good, because of bad synchronisation. But this can 
be solved.

Mike