I've recently built my first linuxfromscratch system to use as a base for a vdr-box with a budget card and all had gone well. I'm using ffmpeg 0.4.9-pre1 from the lfs website with the softdevice plugin. The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
The terminal gives the "initializing the mpeg decoder" message but no error messages.
I'm grateful for any help.
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
On 27 Jun 2007, at 19:25, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
What output hardware do you use? Maybe you can try changing colour space? YUV vs I420.
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 19:25, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
What output hardware do you use? Maybe you can try changing colour space? YUV vs I420.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I'm using a nvidia GF 6600 with the nvidiafb kernel driver. I've tried changing the colourspace in both the softdevice menu and in /etc/directfbrc to match with seemingly no effect.
On 28 Jun 2007, at 18:22, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 19:25, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
What output hardware do you use? Maybe you can try changing colour space? YUV vs I420.
I'm using a nvidia GF 6600 with the nvidiafb kernel driver. I've tried changing the colourspace in both the softdevice menu and in /etc/directfbrc to match with seemingly no effect.
Hmm, I'm unsure about what level of support the nvidia driver has for directfb. Can you provide the log output when you run dfbinfo?
Quoting Darren Wilkinson:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
And you forgot to mention which hardware you are using. With DirectFB we need hardware YUV -> RGB conversion support.
Plain fb output mode should run on any hw, but requires some more CPU power.
Stefan Lucke
Stefan Lucke wrote:
Quoting Darren Wilkinson:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
And you forgot to mention which hardware you are using. With DirectFB we need hardware YUV -> RGB conversion support.
Plain fb output mode should run on any hw, but requires some more CPU power.
Stefan Lucke
I'm using nvidiafb with a GF 6600. However normal framebuffer is also showing menus but no video. Also shouldn't colourspace errors mean I get no menus either?
Quoting Darren Wilkinson:
Stefan Lucke wrote:
Quoting Darren Wilkinson:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
And you forgot to mention which hardware you are using. With DirectFB we need hardware YUV -> RGB conversion support.
Plain fb output mode should run on any hw, but requires some more CPU power.
Stefan Lucke
I'm using nvidiafb with a GF 6600.
6600 ... I think that was the series, where they (nvidia) dropped the overlay unit. When I remind this correct, from this series on only the blitter can be used. So it _could_ be, that when selecting YUY2 as output pixel format _and_ setting "Use StretchBlit" to yes, video is shown. But this depends on DirectFB's driver capabilities too.
However normal framebuffer is also showing menus but no video. Also shouldn't colourspace errors mean I get no menus either?
Menus are drawn directly to framebuffer in RGB.
Stefan Lucke
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.co
I'm using nvidiafb with a GF 6600.
6600 ... I think that was the series, where they (nvidia) dropped the overlay unit. When I remind this correct, from this series on only the blitter can be used. So it _could_ be, that when selecting YUY2 as output pixel format _and_ setting "Use StretchBlit" to yes, video is shown. But this depends on DirectFB's driver capabilities too.
Bingo! Video at last. It now introductes an audio stutter and some weird menu colours but as my target system won't have that card (it's a modded xbox which I'll get a usb1 tv-stick for) it doesn't bother me.
However normal framebuffer is also showing menus but no video. Also shouldn't colourspace errors mean I get no menus either?
Menus are drawn directly to framebuffer in RGB.
Stefan Lucke
Stefan Lucke wrote:
Quoting Darren Wilkinson:
Torgeir Veimo wrote:
On 27 Jun 2007, at 18:32, Darren Wilkinson wrote:
The problem is that although I can hear the channel playing and I can see and use the vdr menus using softdevice I can't view the actual program wether or not it's live or recorded.
Ae you using Xv output? It's prob the wrong colour key used for the overlay. Search the softdevice devel for a fix.
--Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com
I forgot to mention that I'm using DirectFB only.
And you forgot to mention which hardware you are using. With DirectFB we need hardware YUV -> RGB conversion support.
Plain fb output mode should run on any hw, but requires some more CPU power.
Stefan Lucke
This looks so very similar to the problem which occured to me some 2 months ago (similar hardware and video output method): http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/softdevice-devel/2007q2/002841.html As I didn't have too much time to look for the cause, I'm still at vdr-1.4.6 and using xineliboutput (working well), but now that I've catched up with reading few things on the ML which seems interesting to me, I'll soon try the latest vdr-1.5 as it now supports UTF8.
Lucian Muresan
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