On 12/24/05,
James Trietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Scott. For what it's worth, I have my G400 DH
behaving pretty well in Freevo 1.5.4 with DirectFB. I
hand-compiled everything from the ground up (not for
the faint of heart!). The box is X-less, running from
the command line. The TV output on the second head is
beautiful... I dare say it looks better (colorwise and
brightness-wise) than the VGA monitor's output.
I have it configured that mplayer handles all tasks
except DVD playback. Mplayer uses the 'dfbmga' video
driver and appears to use hardware acceleration; video
playback doesn't eat too much of the CPU's power.
Audio playback is good too: MP3s, RealPlayer files and
CDDA (through CD-Paranoia) all work well. Sometimes
the CDDA playback gets screwed and it starts treating
the rest of the disc as one track, but it's just a
minor inconvenience.
Xine does DVD playback because of the menu handling.
I'm actually using df_xine and some patchwork to the
Freevo .py files to make it work. And it almost works.
I have a problem where df_xine will not catch commands
sent from Freevo over stdin, so once the DVD starts
it's effectively dead (can't even quit out of it). If
I kill df_xine manually, Freevo pops back up just like
it should. I'm currently researching more into how it
behaves and will probably post for help here on the
list. df_xine _does_ work perfectly on its own, and it
will catch stdin commands when run on its own from a
telnet session... just not when its run by Freevo.
I haven't tried MAME yet (future plans for it) but all
the Freevo displays and video/audio playback works
well with the G400 and DirectFB.
--- Scott Serr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used matroxfb for a long time, then I decided I
> wanted to try to get
> mame working.
>
> So I went from matroxfb:
> mplayer (hardware scaling etc)
> xine
> no mame
>
> And I went to DirectFB:
> mplayer (sucking CPU, seems like lots of stuff like
> scaling done in
> software?)
> no xine (to DirectFB support... that I can compile
> atleast)
> mame almost working
>
> Can people share their experiences with these two
> methods on a G400DH?
> For instance:
> Anyone ever have mame working on a raw matroxfb?
> Anyone have mame working on DirectFB (on G400) in a
> stable way?
> Anyone have xine support under DirectFB working?
> Will mplayer->DirectFB->G400 ever work as well as
> mplayer->mga_vid.o->G400 as far as using hardware?
>
> Thanks for any light...
> -Scott
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