Simon Baxter wrote:

If I start the plugin with : vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --audio=alsa --remote=none"

I get a letterbox window in the middle of the gnome screen. So I tried: -P'xineliboutput --fullscreen --local=sxfe --video=xxmc --audio=alsa --remote=none'

This gives me the same as above, but with black borders filling the screen. Still a much smaller picture than the full screen I get with vdr-xine.

There are some display options hidden in setup-> plugins-> xineliboutput-> local fronted, and some more under video. Playing with these fixed all problems I had.

Cheers,

Udo

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:55 -0800, Simon Baxter wrote:

I've been trying xineliboutput for the first time - looks like it will solve all sorts of problems I've been having, if I can get over these ones....

Problem number 1: If I start the plugin with : vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --audio=alsa --remote=none"

I get a letterbox window in the middle of the gnome screen. So I tried: -P'xineliboutput --fullscreen --local=sxfe --video=xxmc --audio=alsa --remote=none'

You might want to try the options for display aspect ratio and letterbox->16:9 scaling ? With vdr-sxfe, tou can try aspect ratios 4:3, 16:9 or 16:10 (--help). If you want to have "real" 16:9 out of "letterboxed" image, correctly scaled, please try --post=autoscale option (with possible sub-options of your taste). autoscale is shipped (and installed?) with xineliboutput package.

This gives me the same as above, but with black borders filling the screen. Still a much smaller picture than the full screen I get with vdr-xine. Also, when I change channels (PVR with pvrinput plugin) the various channel scaling leaves parts of the picture around the new "letterbox" image.

I'd say this is in fact the same problem ?

How do I set scaling? When I use vdr-xine, I start it with "xine --fullscreen --hide-gui -V xv -A alsa -D --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes"

Check vdr-sxfe and --help output. You can try to fix some of the incorrect scaling problems with different options in menu -> VDR plugins / xineliboutput / OSD menu. Anyway, there is not much to do unless you use vdr-sxfe or vdr-fbfe and correct --aspect option - YOUR frontend for output.

Problem number 2: I have been using the mplayer plugin to play divx/xvid/mpeg movies. It's rather clumsy though, as I need to kill xine and restart after (scripted) to free up the xxmc/xvmc resources. When I try and play an avi file with xineliboutput, I get stuttering video and loads of the following: bad_frame [mpeg4 @ 0x125b4e4]header damaged

I belive this is quite usual ; if someone else has any other info, pse speak now :) I got it with almost all "net" and transcoded dc-camera mpeg4 video clips, even up to 200 lines / sec disorientation. I use the magical &> /dev/null options in all scripts to nuke it - typically the error message uses too much CPU to even access any VDR menus.. Anyway, it is xine mpeg4 decoder probem. As those clips still play 100% (unless you add in the addtional 20%...100% "optional" CPU usage I'm quite happy with current decdoer. It might help (for CPU ...) if you start sxfe with >&/dev/null. (for me it is just enough :). And, I like to lay on the sand+sun when VDR is running smoothly :)

What does work well, which I'm VERY pleased with, is DVD playback. I've had a long standing problem with intermittant audio stuttering - which seems to be resolved with xineliboutput!

vdf-xineliboutput has own dvd player, it uses xine to playu DVDs. If you have any serious problems with DVDs, please call/mail me.

As told in the readme, most of the features are not available unless you use vdr-sxfe frontend to connect to VDR.

BTW, there are some quite significant improvements for DVD playback in the next version (or CVS :)

"offically" there is no support for using xine, gxine, ... ui's as xineliboutput frontend - I'll give any help I can but I won't try anything. Most of the features are just unacceblible from VDR when using ?xine? ... but with some script magic (?) it is still possible if Y know what Y are doing.

- Petri

- Petri