On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:00:29 +0100 Anders Gunnarsson d00guan@dtek.chalmers.se wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to set up a VDR-box with output over an ordinary graphics card for the first time. The box is to be a dedicated tv and mediaplayer.
As I understood the choise is between xine and softdevice plugins, and then if X or frame buffer is to be used. It would be nice to make use of hardware acceleration if that is possible.
I would be glad if someone with experience from such setups could be kind enough to give me some hints to what would be suitable setup for my needs, when it comes to plugins to use for output and media playing, and output method (X, FB, ...).
Hardware to be used is: P4 1.8, 512MB Geforce 3 Ti 500 SB Live 5.1 with S/P-dif
I'd say X(.org) is easiest with almost any card because the video mode and display device management is good and the drivers are mature. You could try opensource drivers with the GeForce, but the proprietary ones from nVidia are probably faster.
The vdr-xine plugin allows one to use the advanced deinterlacing methods (Greedy2Frame, TomsMoComp) available in Xine, so it may provide better output quality. Nothing prevents you from trying out both vdr-xine and vdr-softdevice and decide which works best for you. People seem to use both quite happily.
-- Niko Mikkilä