Isaac Richards wrote: >On Friday 27 January 2006 11:32, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > > >>On Friday 27 January 2006 16:28, Buzz wrote: >> >> >>>Would it be possible to scale the video down to the 'maximum XvImage >>>size' (or somewhere under it)? >>> >>> >>No. Well not that there's any point. :) >> >>Xv is what's providing the performance for scaling the video to your screen >>res.... if you scale the video before passing it to Xv then you're doing >>the scaling in software and there's not advantage to using Xv (ok, well >>apart from the colourspace conversion). >> >> > >Furthermore, it's decoding directly into those XvImages. Scaling first would >be adding an extra huge frame-sized memcpy to every frame which would also >negatively impact performance. > >Jjust buy a real video card if you want to display HD. > >Isaac >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-dev mailing list >mythtv-dev@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > > >!DSPAM:43da4e14241484396030648! > > My problem is the computer is a laptop with the I915GM chipset (dell inspiron 2200) that for $400 makes a great mobile mythtv display. It's just a driver bug that's not too hard to fix as the hardware can create a 1920x1080 overlay but was coded with the old i810 limits into it.
With the mythtv patch it won't crash my backend when a remote display errors. Great work guys!!! _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev