Quoting James Gatt: > Hi, > > Firstly I should apologise in case this is not fully relevant to > directfb itself - the solution to the problem I have might as likely be > in mplayer as directfb. > > I am writing a media server type of application that is to be used with > a remote control and television / AV system. Nothing else - no keyboard, > mouse etc. (A keyboard might get added later, but the point is it is not > required to use the system.) Anyway, this means the entire user > interface always uses the television - either it displays the user > interface, or the output of mplayer (and later maybe other things such > as xmame). > > The graphics card is a Matrox G450, and I am using the dfbmga driver in > mplayer. > > The problem comes when switching between the user interface and mplayer > - as far as I can tell, the user interface must give up the display so > that mplayer can get exclusive access to it. This causes a glitch on the > video output which upsets the television. I think the signal actually > disappears briefly. Is there a technical reason why it is necessary for > the display to be altered when an application exits? For instance, if I > use dfbsee to look at an image, when I exit this, the display gets > scrambled. I am only concerned with the TV-out signal from the card - I > am not looking at what is coming out of the other VGA output.
Are you using the multi application core? CVS or 0.9.20? -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH
