On Tuesday 18 Apr 2006 12:08, Mark Adams wrote:
> > I am trying to get my vdr running on my via epia-m system. I have
> > used the viafb driver davesdomain.org.uk which worked out perfect for
> > direct framebuffer, but cannot seem to get the things to work quite
> > right. I have compile vdr with xine. I have included some outputs and
> > need some assistance:
>
> Yet another different viafb driver! Wow, if all this development
> effort went into a single one, we'd have a perfect solution complete
> with hardware MPEG encoding by now.
>
> I'm not a VDR user myself but there are some on this list who have got
> things working fine using DirectFB (CVS version or 0.9.25 when it's
> released shortly) and the viafb driver from DirectFB CVS. You might
> like to try that combination. DirectFB 0.9.24 lacks some key
> improvements to the unichrome gfxdriver.
>
> > Screen (00) FBDev Primary Screen (primary screen)
> >
> > Caps: VSYNC POWER_MANAGEMENT
> >
> > Layer (00) FBDev Primary Layer (primary layer)
> >
> > Type: GRAPHICS
> > Caps: SURFACE BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST SATURATION
>
> That shows that the DirectFB unichrome gfxdriver is not being used.
> That's either because you didn't compile it or you didn't have a
> suitable viafb kernel framebuffer loaded or your particular hardware
> is not supported. None of the video overlay overlay or TV out
> functions will be available.
I must have missed the original message!
I have a working setup of a Via Epia MII system using vdr with softdevice
and DirectFB output.
I am using DirectFB cvs from 28/10/2005 (not sure what has changed in the
Unichrome driver since then...). I am using viafb from DirectFB cvs (from
today: upgraded the kernel to 2.6.16.5 to see if it solved some of my
dvb-usb problems and viafb needed tweaking to compile with this kernel:
now fixed in cvs). I am loading this as a module and I do not have a
vesafb. Module options:
viafb mode=720x576 bpp=32 refresh=50 TVon=1 TVoverscan=1
I am using S-video tv-out to my CRT TV. I am using a patch for viafb from
Mark Adams which gives proper synchronisation of the TV-out (I can supply
this, if you like).
I'm currently on vdr-1.3.47 (but this has been working fine for quite a
few months) and softdevice is cvs from 08/01/2006 (not bothered updating
for a while because it works!). This is using the -P'softdevice -vo
dfb:viatv' driver so that it sets things up properly for TV-out.
For reference, here is the output of dfbinfo on this vdr box:
(*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.
---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.24 ---------------------
(c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH
(c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH
-----------------------------------------------------------
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2005-11-04 18:37)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()
(*) Direct/Modules: suppress module 'joystick'
(*) Direct/Modules: suppress module 'lirc'
(*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled
(!) DirectFB/Unichrome: Failed to determine hardware revision, assuming
17.
(*) DirectFB/Graphics: VIA/S3G CLE266/UniChrome 0.4 (-)
(*) DirectFB/Core/WM: Default 0.2 (Convergence GmbH)
(!!!) *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] ***
[../../../lib/fusion/reactor.c:797]
Screen (00) FBDev Primary Screen (primary screen)
Caps: VSYNC POWER_MANAGEMENT
Layer (00) FBDev Primary Layer (primary layer)
Type: GRAPHICS
Caps: SURFACE BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST SATURATION
Layer (01) VIA Unichrome Video
Type: GRAPHICS VIDEO STILL_PICTURE
Caps: SURFACE OPACITY SCREEN_LOCATION DEINTERLACING
DST_COLORKEY LEVELS FIELD_PARITY SCREEN_POSITION SCREEN_SIZE
Layer (02) VIA Unichrome DVD Subpicture
Type: GRAPHICS VIDEO STILL_PICTURE
Caps: SURFACE OPACITY
/etc/directfb contains:
mode=720x576
depth=32
pixelformat=ARGB
disable-module=lirc
disable-module=joystick
disable-module=cle266
no-vt
Note: this isn't perfect yet: this is still using software MPEG decoding
which is just about on the limit for my Epia MII-12000, so playback is a
little bit jerky at times and A-V sync isn't quite right at times. I'm
currently looking into getting hardware decoding working.
Let me know if you want any further info.
Cheers,
Laz
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