[vdr] Re: How to play HDTV files ?

[Joerg Riechardt <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>]

Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:33:40PM +0100, Joerg Riechardt wrote:
>
>
> > I am interested in good quality too, and so I tried xawtv and compared
> > it to xine. But I see no difference.  What is the improvement in picture
> > quality, that you see? On that PC I use a FF card Rev.1.3, Suse 9.2 with
> > standard kernel, and the Suse xine and xawtv4 (as xawtv 3.94 didn't work
> > with the FF card).
>
> I am using xawtv 3.94 with my FF, just launched as follow :
> xawtv -geometry 770x580-0-0 &
>
> BUT THE QUALITY with my new Nvidia card is below the one of xine...
> I have also tried ATI based cards: there XV output is of same quality as
> the one from Nvidia. To have a really good quality, the only cards I
> know about are the Matrox ones ;-)
I use the G550
> > What version are you using, and would you be so kind and give me a short
> > instruction how to set it up (with 3.94, if you use that)? I read 
> > through bytesex.org, but got more and more confused: do I have to patch 
> > the kernel? With what for FF card?
>
> We agree that FF stands for Full Featured cards, which mean with onboard
> mpeg2 decoder, yes ?
yes

> Why on earth would you like to patch your kernel, if you want to patch,
> just use dvb-kernel CVS against a 2.6.10-rc3.
> Then don't forget to have the v4l loaded in your xorg.conf (or XFree
> equivalent) (with an Load "v4l" at the good place), otherwise you won't
> have xv extension...
I have it

would you please post your .xawtv?

I put now some channels I found with google in the .xawtv , and when I 
start xawtv I now get a picture, but it freezes immediately, showing a 
distorted TV picture. At least something.

>
> Good luck,

thank you,
Jörg