> Basically the PVR350 is just that: a PVR, intended to be used in > hardware recorders and things like that (and I know it is in fact used > in some HW recorders). It's not for mpeg4 playback, etc. Although you > can use a software decoder and XV to do the playback. The XV stuff is > pretty efficient as it uses DMA to get the picture to the card, but > using the framebuffer directly is really inefficient as it uses PIO to > get the data to the card, which is a notoriously slow method. > The same is true for DVD playback: it isn't designed for that > (unfortunately). Again, you can use XV for that so you can at least > utilitize the excellent TV-out quality of the PVR350.
I actually just gave dvd playback another chance with the latest version of X, ivtv, and the xdriver, and was pleasantly surprised! xine -V xv -f dvd:// works marvelously and doesn't seem to skip at all. I use the same command for playing other video formats and get equally good results. Much improved from the last time I tried it. The downside is that the latest xdriver/ivtv version has managed to slow the framebuffer drawing down even more. I can actually see it drawing widgets on the screen in layers it's so slow with each screen of options it loads. i don't suppose there's any way to fix that, though. - Jeff _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
