On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:52:47 +0200 Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andreas F�rtig wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 08:13, Dirk Meyer wrote: > >> Andreas F�rtig wrote: > >> > Hi there! > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> > i only want to know, what pci card will be the best for a 2.6er > >kernel> > and freevo 1.50? > >> > >> I use an AverMedia 771. Cheap and ok. > >> > > > > looks really good, did you use the infrared remote controll? > > > > did the card encode the video stream to mpegII or is this the work of > > the processor? would it be faster, if i buy a card with integrated > > encoded? > > The stream you receive is alreadty MPEG 2, no need to encode it. You > need to decode it and the AverMedia can't do that. You need your > normal CPU to do that (mplayer + Duron 800 = 30 % cpu time). Yeah, but for some reason, xine or vlc + celeron 466 = 15% cpu time. Something wrong with mplayer, imho. My duron 600 never got up to all of 30% with mplayer playing high rez mpeg4 output through mga_vid, come to think of it. Never tried DVD in freevo, there's an honest to god DVD player six inches from that box. mpeg2 is easier than it has a reputation for. A lot of the dvd issues are just getting the data off the disk. I'm not promising happy results with the dvb-t card on this box, but it can for sure do it. Throw a dxr3 card in the box and you could stop worrying entirely. I've played DVD on a Cyrix 6x86-PR133 (120mhz) with mplayer and a dxr3. I'm currently sorta juggling the idea of coupling a DVB-S card, DXR3, the Tivo Service Emulator, and Software Yet To Be Designed to feed a tivo (I have two of'em - AND a dish pvr - ever wonder why i have zero interest in the recording capabilities of freevo?) with FTA. The tricky part will be the yet to be designed part where the tivo controlls the dvb card via serial port. The tivo supports two different serial protocols for that, I'd need to whip something up with python or something that understands said protocols and can drive the dvb tuner. I should do it, if only for the rube goldberg effect. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
