Greetings to All,
Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200.
Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV without framedrops or stuttering :) The tutorials on vdr-wiki.de were very helpfull to get it all working. So cheers for the person who wrote it!
But I miss something in my setup. I used Xineliboutput before - for output in combination with my DVB Budget card - as a player for DVD's and other multimedia files (Xvid, MKV, MP3, etc). Obviously, this doesn't work anymore (I tried it, I don't get any output on the eHD)
According to vdr-portal.de, xinemultimedia seems to be the plugin so that I can enjoy multimedia using eHD as a output device. Besides the problems with getting xinemultimedia te compile, I wonder if there isn't an other option to have multimedia aspects in VDR using the eHD as an output device?
If there isn't, what do I need to compile/patch to get xinemultimedia working?
I think it's the following what I need:
- xinemultmedia plugin (figures); - Xine-lib 1.1.8 with xine-reel.diff; - xine-ehd plugin (so that Xine can use the eHD as a output device); - Filebrowser (Otherwise selecting files will be a problem, right?);
Is this correct? Because information about the eHD and multimedia aspects of VDR are a bit hard to find. And I don't know I like to fact to downgrade Xine-lib to 1.1.8 (I run Xine-lib 1.2.x now since it's part of Ubuntu 8.04).
Regards,
Niels Wagenaar Netherlands
On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:43, Niels Wagenaar wrote:
Greetings to All,
Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200.
Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV without framedrops or stuttering :)
Two questions:
- does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz without restarting VDR? - how is changing between video / s-video output and HDMI achieved? Can they be enabled simultaneously, or change automatically based on whether something is connected on the HDMI port?
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:55:04PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
- does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz
without restarting VDR?
Yes, you can change the output mode (resolution, frequency, ...) in a settings menu "on-the-fly".
- how is changing between video / s-video output and HDMI achieved?
Can they be enabled simultaneously, or change automatically based on whether something is connected on the HDMI port?
Analog SDTV output (576i/480i) works only when HDMI outputs 576p/480p. For all other modes, the analog port (usually in YUV) works in parallel with HDMI.
On 24 Jul 2008, at 01:19, Georg Acher wrote:
- how is changing between video / s-video output and HDMI achieved?
Can they be enabled simultaneously, or change automatically based on whether something is connected on the HDMI port?
Analog SDTV output (576i/480i) works only when HDMI outputs 576p/ 480p. For all other modes, the analog port (usually in YUV) works in parallel with HDMI.
Ok, the use case is me using the card on a regular TV with s-video or rgb input, then I'd like to turn on the projector that has HDMI input.
From my understanding I'd just change the output mode from 576p to something higher, thus turning off SDTV output, and enabling HDMI?
How does the card work with plain SDTV interlaced output? Does it do field perfect 50Hz output like an old style FF card? Would you rather recommend a setup with both a FF card and an eHD card in the same computer for such a usage scenario?
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008, Niels Wagenaar wrote:
Greetings to All,
Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200.
Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV without framedrops or stuttering :) The tutorials on vdr-wiki.de were very helpfull to get it all working. So cheers for the person who wrote it!
Looks good.
Can anyone translate the tutorials and upload to http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/ for the non-German speakers among us?
:-)
Cheers,
Laz
several questions :)
- does eHD support 1080p ? - which CPU do you have and what about cpu load during of decoding 1080i ? - is it hard to buy this card in Europe ?
Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200.
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Georg Acher -
Goga777 -
Laz -
Niels Wagenaar -
Torgeir Veimo