Hi Jason, Thank you for your response.
> I have the same problem with an Epia 800. (a Trident > CyberBlade-based board). Actually, I think that's the same board I have :-) I actually bought it to play with, and once satisifed with the results, will likely upgrade to one of the other models, and perhaps give this one as an Xmas gift or something to a friend :-) > - set overscan/ntsc in the bios I think I've done that. > - use the standard kernel vesa framebuffer (not an > accelerated one) Hrm, how does this affect playback of DivX, etc.? I heard it's fairly slow on this platform. Actually, one thing I have noticed is when playing an MP3 in framebuffer, if I press FFWD or some other key, everything freezes :-( > - don't use any tvtool or tvout to set anything (It > automatically uses tvout if no monitor is attached) I think this is only required with the epiafb module, since when it is inserted, it makes the display go all wonky until you specify the '-b ntsc' with the tvout tool (I think the epiafb uses PAL by default) > - use -vo fbdev:vidix with mplayer. It has built-in > support for the hardware. Hrm, I will have to give that a try. It may even correct the problem I just mentioned regarding the MP3's, if there's built-in support :-) > X seemed slow to me too. I didn't try freevo under X > on the epia, but mplayer was far slower under X. Actually, I was playing with Freevo + X (on the epia) this morning (output to a monitor, since I still haven't been able to X to display ont he TV screen yet), and there was no window manager running (I figured out how to do it). It seemed pretty okay, actually. We'll see when I actually get it outputting to my TV screen (I want to have both framebuffer and X support) I'm wondering if tools compiled specifically for the epia (MPlayer, etc.) would help performance any? > X driver, so that's not really a good test. Did you > try it? Actually, no, I plum forgot about it. Perhaps rather than smack my head against the wall, I should give it a go :-) > That sounds nice, I may have to experiment with X > again. The color of the epia 800 tv out leaves > something to be desired. Actually, when I think about it, I am not sure that the "vibrant blue" will come out through X even on the TV screen, or at least, prolly not on my TV, since the colour palette is prolly fairly limited. Alan ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
