Hi,
thanks for the feedback. Please find my comments to your comments between the lines. 

> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freevo-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gray, Tim
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 19:46
> An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Betreff: RE: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P...
> 
> good luck getting mplayer to play anything fullscreen on any framebuffer
> other than the Matrox G400.

It is already working. The only tricky thing was the "append" line in lilo.conf.

> 
> and if you do find a way to get mplayer to play fullscreen on the generic
> framebuffer...  please let me know!

The generic frame buffer does not work. I am using the sisfb driver. The generic frame 
buffer only let me use 640x480x8.

> 
> I strongly suggest you go the X window route to get mplayer to scale
> fullscreen, 

Perhaps you mean hardware scaling? Software scaling works.

> do not use a window manager as that adds only un-needed bloat,
> specifying a single line to start freevo in your .xinitrc should do the
> job.

I thought that the X window system itself is "un-needed bloat" compared to the frame 
buffer solution. But perhaps I am missing something here. 
I will try your suggestion. Perhaps the bloat really only consists in the window 
manager. KDE really needs a little time to start up.

> 
> use the sis driver in Xfree86.  although the vesa driver also works with
> this chipset and still enables the XV playback acceleration on mpeg2
> files.

There is one sis driver in debian woody which does not seem to work. I am going to try 
to download it from Thomas Winischhofers page.

> 
> Also cince you have i810 for your audio, you are also suffering with the
> chipset limitations... the latest alsa fixes most of those, the OSS
> drivers
> I believe are legacy as alsa is now the standard for linux sound as of
> 2.4.6..

Ok, I have heard of this. But it was really easy to get OSS running and it sounds 
good... Which limitations do I have with this?

> 
> you MUST set mplayer to record at 48000 if you are recording from the
> line-in. and the sound is cleaner if you are able to force the sound
> output
> to 48000.

I have not tried recording yet...

> 
> It sounds like your machine has the same hardware my micro-ATX motherboard
> has..(except for the tv out... that is nice that yours has that.)

Yes, that's one reason I have bought exactly this box. It should have a really good TV 
out. Which I haven't even tried out yet...


Regards,
        Thorsten





> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Pferdekaemper, Thorsten
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Freevo-users] Setting up a freevo box on MSI Hermes 651P...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am currently setting up a freevo box on a MSI Hermes 651P. I would like
> to
> share my experiences, problems and solutions I found out. Perhaps someone
> is
> interested...
> Regards,
>       Thorsten
> 
> 
> 
> 1. The idea
> ===========
> 
> Last year, I began to digtize some old videotapes. I also began to use my
> computer as a video recorder and I also collected some shows in divx

[skipped my own bla bla]



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