On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:25:20PM -0400, Buckley Hopper wrote:
>Duncan Webb wrote:
>> Flickering TV guide is a well known feature of DirectFB and the Matrox
>> G400s cards, 100 MHz TV helps.
>> 
>> You could try running the Matrox buffer at different resolutions. The
>> geometry setting and AFAIK /etc/fb.modes controls this. The skins have
>> been designed for 800x600 which the Matrox cards should be able to scale.
>
>For the gui, using a higher resolution and letting the hardware scale it 
>to reduce the flicker would be good, but for playing back interlaced 
>video, I'm pretty sure I want the 720x480 resolution.  Is there a way to 
>use one mode for freevo and switch modes when playing back video?

Set 720x480 in /etc/directfbrc and a different mode in
/etc/freevo/freevo.conf ?

I have a feeling that mplayer will switch modes automatically to a
suitable one when using the dfbmga output.

Phil

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