Scott Serr wrote: > Rob Shortt wrote: >> You should mention commercially available video cards that do tv-out. >> The most popular are nvidia and ATI based, and both have XFree86 or Xorg >> drivers that support the tv-out, and can be had for cheap. >> >> > I must be a total Framebuffer biggot. I bought a Radeon for this > project along time ago, but couldn't get the framebuffer to work on > TVout. At that time there was a patch from a PowerPC guy that made it > almost work to VGA. Thats why I got the G400DH.
Well, I have to admit, I am a framebuffer "biggot" as well. I don't think X belongs on a PVR (think device), it was designed for the desktop. That said, it's much easier (possible) to get nvidia and ATI cards' tv-out working in X. > Are there ANY success stories with TVout and Framebuffer with ATI or > Nvidia? I just hate running X for this sort of thing. I guess I just agreed with you... I would welcome such stories as well. > Out of the PVR 150,250,350... which has the most supported functions? > I thought the most feature rich would be the best, but apparently Linux > doesn't support the 350 very well? The 350 is the only with hardware > decode right? Rob, what do you have? And what is the "best"? Well the 250 is depricated in favour of the 150 do its about the same. The 350 also has an mpeg DEcoder w/ tv-out that has a (crappy crap crap) framebuffer driver and an X driver that sits on top of that to impliment the missing pieces. So, once again, X on the PVR. I with these people would "get it". I have a 250 and it has been great. Also there's the pvr-500 which has 2 tuners and 2 mpeg encoders, twice the fun! > MythTV vs Freevo: > 1. MythTV has "pause" > 2. Freevo can do Framebuffer (I wonder if QT can sit on SDL to make > MythTV do framebuffer) It is possible for myth to run on qt/fb/embedded qt or whatever and output video to DirectFB. > 3. Freevo architecture is plugin/helper oriented.. Myth is not? There's a few myth vs freevo threads around. Freevo 2.0 will have live pause / timesift tv. Freevo is generally more lightweight but the current version lacks the pollished tv support that myth has. -Rob -- ------------------------------------------------------- Rob Shortt | http://tvcentric.com | Freevo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://freevo.sf.net | Free your TV ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
