Kevin, have you been able to re-encode divx to mpeg for tv-output with your plugin? I presume the dxr3 cards make use of this feature.

I've searched for the correct command line for doing this; unfortunately, I haven't come up with anything. Can you please shed some light on this?

Paul.

From: kevin thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ivtv-devel] ivtv xine plugin beta released
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:48:10 -0800 (PST)

that is correct.

however it is possible to have xine re-encode anything
it can decode into mpeg

-tmk

--- "Sager, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Am I correct when I say that this plug-in supports
> hardware decoding of
> mpeg2 and vob files? It seems that others are trying
> to use this to plugin
> to playback files other than mpeg2 (xvid, divx,
> etc.). These other file
> types can only be played back through the osd for
> now, correct? Once YUV
> decoding is stablized we will be able to take
> advantage of that to pipe
> other video formats, once converted to YUV, through
> the PVR-350 without
> having to use the osd.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work on the plugin as well
> as driver development.
> Also, thanks to Chris and others for their hard work
> on the driver as well.
> All of your efforts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of kevin thayer
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ivtv-devel] ivtv xine plugin beta released
>
>
> Here it is:
>
>
http://home.comcast.net/~nufan_wfk/ivtv/ivtv-xine-beta.patch.gz
>
> instructions:
> * get the patch
> * check out xine-lib from cvs
>
> cd xine-lib/
> zcat /path/to/ivtv-xine-beta.patch.gz | patch -p0
>
> ## if you've already built xine-lib
> ./autogen.sh (even if you've run it before)
> ..wait... :)
> cd src/ivtv/
> make
> make install (as root)
> ldconfig (just in case)
>
> ## if you haven't already built xine-lib
> ./autogen.sh
> make
> su
> make install (as root)
> ldconfig (just in case)
>
> then to use it:
>
> xine -V ivtv
>
> -tmk
>
> --- kevin thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > not sure. I don't think so. I use AC3 output
> >
> > -tmk
> >
> > --- Greg Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:52:41 -0800 (PST), kevin
> > > thayer
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > In case you have
> > > > > something to test let me known, I will
> already
> > > > > downgrade ivtv to rc2a
> > > > > (currently on rc2j)
> > > >
> > > > I'll release the test version later today
> > > >
> > > > it's against xine-cvs, so if you want to get a
> > > head
> > > > start, download/compile that :)
> > > >
> > > > unfortunately there's a xine problem with
> > > subtitles
> > > > that makes them not work, but the overlay
> > > > functionality is working fine on the ivtv
> side.
> > > > Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
> > > >
> > > > > Oh and I have the same question, any-one
> tried
> > > to
> > > > > convert divx, mpeg4
> > > > > to mpeg2 stream and then do a HW decoding
> from
> > > the
> > > > > PVR350? That would
> > > > > finally solve all the Vsync problems we face
> > > today
> > > > > with playing divx
> > > > > via the frambuffer of the PVR-350!
> > > >
> > > > i believe the mplayer ivtv plugin does this.
> > (not
> > > the
> > > > ivtvOSD plugin!) mplayer simply notices that
> the
> > > > output wants an mpegpes stream and converts to
> > it.
> > > > xine plugin will eventually do the same thing
> i
> > > think.
> > > >
> > > > Also it looks like yuv decoding will be
> working
> > > soon
> > > > based on the great job chris and john (and
> > > others?)
> > > > are doing. that is a much less expensive way
> to
> > do
> > > > video out :)
> > > >
> > > > -tmk
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Please pardon my ignorance - but will sound be
> > piped
> > > out via the PVR-350 ?
> > >
> > > Greg.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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