[vdr] Re: Softdevice + DirectFB + cle266

[Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>]

Tony Grant wrote:

> > > -> more or less OT (to the guys that own an EPIA) :
> > Since EPIA boards have a buildin hardware decoder it would be better
> > to have a separate plugin like dxr3-plugin for them.
> The hardware support is being worked on in the unichrome driver. It will
> be taken care of in XvMC and no plugin will be required
When you say "driver", you mean the XFRee86 video drvier, isn't it ? If 
I want to use it, I have to bring the whole X-Window stuff.
I would prefer to use the light DirectFB, on top of the viafb kernel 
"module" (not "driver"), that provides a frame-buffer for the console 
and applications.
I can't figure the relationship between these two pieces of code : they 
seme to be related, but which one is the master, and which one is 
derived from the other. It seems that the viafb kernel frame-buffer 
comes from Via, but there are patches around (the -epia kernel), and the 
release dates of those Via modules is quite old (early 2003).

> > > -> about softdevice DirectFB :
> > > * what is the status of the DirectFB code ?
> For Epia-M there is apparently working accelerated mpeg2 support for
> viaFB in MythTV.
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2003-December/016397.html
My setup with softdevice is quite the same (except kernel 2.6.6, 
corresponding -epia kernel patch, and DirectFB from CVS). I'll try the 
most obvious changes (get back to DirectFB 0.9.20).

NH