Hi, in case any developer reads this: Thank you so much for you effort in creating the ivtv-drivers (I've tried this with the stable 0.2 branch as well as one or two different late 0.3.6x drivers).
Finally, I've also arrived at the problem of running mplayer with a divx movie on my slow PVR-350 system (Duron 650) with X running in framebuffer mode, i.e. the only link between computer and TV. >From what I gathered from the ivtv-devel list archive, the xv extensions do not exist [1],thus I tried -vo x11 (not a good idea) and -vo ivtv or ivtvosd with a patched mplayer. However, ivtvosd gives me just a long list of FB errors, while ivtv does work somehow; however, the audio is completely out of sync (> 3 seconds would be my guess). Using the -delay did not help much, since the stream ran out of sync again, -hardframedrop helps a bit, but the video is too ugly to look at. Different audio output modes -ao sdl, -ao oss did not help either. Thus my first question is: Is there any other way to play movies via mplayer on such a slow box? Installing a graphics card with TV-Out would be a solution, but then I would have to tweak the many cables behind my TV again :( Just out of curiosity I tried the following yesterday evening: Using mplayer to output the movie into a yuv- and a wav stream (-vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm), then converting this via mpeg2enc und toolame/mp2enc into two seperate mpeg and audio-streams which I finally merged with mplex to single file. Copying that file via dd to /dev/video16 I was able to watch the movie without any high CPU-load and with basically perfect audio-video-sync. However, this method is pretty cumbersome and a bit frustrating if you have to convert a video this way every time you wish to watch a movie [2]. Second question: Is there a better way to achive this? Final question: Is there a generic way to get the same result (a/V-sync in good quiality onto the TV screen)? Cheers for any insight Carsten [1] Is this because the xv entensions are hard to implement for the PVR-cards or is it because the info from the chip manufacterer is not available? [2] I guess the same will apply to a DVD. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
