Hi all!
We have now a working HDTV feed here no by the polar bears ;) Canal+ have a channel named "Canal+ More HD" that sends a couple of films every night.
I've seen some threads in the past trying to get a working setup. Maybe you all have working solutions, but I'm still trying to get something working.
Right now the status for me is as follows. Kernel 2.6.12 with matrox G450 and fb device budget card with CI vdr-1.3.31 Which gives me a working recording setup.
I haven't yet been able to setup a working frontend for viewing (HD). With fbxine/vidix and the xine-plugin i can watch normal feed perfectly well but as soon as i switch to the HD feed the box goes boom. Not even a smallest kernel panic or trace. The machine just looks up completely. It's reproduceable with cmdline fbxine (fbxine 0.99.3) and a vdr file.
Viewing the vdr files with mplayer/vidix works OK but takes all CPU cyles of a 3Ghz PIV. Would directfb make that any better?
/t
In 431C9E69.8040306@prybil.se, Tomas Prybil wrote:
We have now a working HDTV feed here no by the polar bears ;) Canal+ have a channel named "Canal+ More HD" that sends a couple of films every night.
I've seen some threads in the past trying to get a working setup. Maybe you all have working solutions, but I'm still trying to get something working.
Right now the status for me is as follows. Kernel 2.6.12 with matrox G450 and fb device budget card with CI vdr-1.3.31 Which gives me a working recording setup.
I haven't yet been able to setup a working frontend for viewing (HD). With fbxine/vidix and the xine-plugin i can watch normal feed perfectly well but as soon as i switch to the HD feed the box goes boom. Not even a smallest kernel panic or trace. The machine just looks up completely. It's reproduceable with cmdline fbxine (fbxine 0.99.3) and a vdr file.
Viewing the vdr files with mplayer/vidix works OK but takes all CPU cyles of a 3Ghz PIV. Would directfb make that any better?
ISTR reading that the Matrox hardware features usually used to accelerate video playback can't cope with HDTV.
Tony Houghton skrev:
In 431C9E69.8040306@prybil.se, Tomas Prybil wrote:
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Viewing the vdr files with mplayer/vidix works OK but takes all CPU cyles of a 3Ghz PIV. Would directfb make that any better?
ISTR reading that the Matrox hardware features usually used to accelerate video playback can't cope with HDTV.
Any recommendations?
/t
Tomas Prybil vdrmail@prybil.se writes:
ISTR reading that the Matrox hardware features usually used to accelerate video playback can't cope with HDTV.
Any recommendations?
I can play HDTV (HTDV Shark tale demo 1280 x 688 ) with mplayer and a Radeon 9200 at about 40% CPU with an Athlon XP 3200 (~2Ghz).
HTH
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