Daniel/Ivor, I have learned the following info : xvinfo reports, among other things: Adaptor 0: "Intel(R) Video overlay" maximum XvImage size 1440 x 1080
So that telling me that the largest permissable video overlay size is 1440x1080 (as I understand it), which obviously won't fit 1920x1080 into it. :-) mplayer WILL NOT play these two HD channels when using '-vo xv' or '-xv sdl' as it crashes (with an X error stating it couldn't allocate space, same error as myth encounters I expect). mplayer WILL play them with -vo options: x11 or gl or aa (it doesn't do sound though, but I didn't look into that) The 'gl' is so slow/jerky it's unworkable, but it at least displays. 'aa' is fun too. Would it be possible to scale the video down to the 'maximum XvImage size' (or somewhere under it)? > BTW You can force MythTV to not try using XVideo by defining the "NO_XV" environment variable before > running MythTV. However, you computer will probably be too slow for this to work at HDTV resolutions. I will also try this suggestion tomorrow, and advise if it's workable or not. Buzz. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel > Kristjansson > Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 11:30 PM > To: Development of mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv] #1058 - what now? > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 22:24 +1000, Buzz wrote: > > Given that the MS windows software that comes with my DVB-T > card works > > just fine (by scaling the display output to either a selected > > resolution, or "full screen" - which is the largest scaling > that can > > be fitted in my display resolution without cropping), I would have > > thought that there was an equivalent in Myth...since Myth > is otherwise superior in just about every > > aspect. > It is probably using something else to scale the video, your > video driver wanted to use 2332800 bytes for a buffer that > needed 3133440 bytes. What video card are you using? > > > How do others cope when part of their display chain can't directly > > play (1080i)1920x1080 resolution, (or other big resolutions)?, but > > they still want to use HD? > Usually they get a new video card, but can you try this > little experiment with mplayer? > > mplayer allows you to try various video output methods using > the -vo option. Try them all and report back with the ones > that work, so we know what we might want to implement.. Be > careful as mplayer will print "The selected video_out device > is incompatible with this codec." sometimes, and select > another videoout device for you, in this case do not report > success with that video out device. > > BTW You can force MythTV to not try using XVideo by defining > the "NO_XV" environment variable before running MythTV. > However, you computer will probably be too slow for this to > work at HDTV resolutions. > > -- Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > mythtv-dev@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev