Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless server running vdr-xineliboutput.
** I know there has been a tremendous amount of work from everyone in respect to Matrox TV-Out already, sorry to keep bugging you all ;-) **