--- Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:13:55 -0800, Alex Harford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:12:19 -0500, Maverick > wrote: > > > How about the magic checkbox in Utilities/Setup, > Setup, TV Settings, > > > Playback, next, next, next, next, Check "Use the > PVR-350's TV out / > > > MPEG decoder". Is yours checked and pointing to > the correct /dev/video > > > device? > > > > But that won't help him play xvids since it's not > using the PVR-350's > > tv, it's using the framebuffer. > > > > Chris, how fast is your system? You've got me > worried because I just > > put together a box and I'm hoping to be able to > play things through > > the pvr-350. > > > > Also, did you find any instructions on how to use > the updated driver? > > I'd like to try the new version of ivtv and I > don't want to wait for > > Axel to build the rpm. > > > > Alex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > It's a 2.4 Ghz Celeron, with 512 Mb of RAM, so it > really shouldn't > have any problems playing XVids. From reading around > though it's more > likely that I'm passing the wrong arguments to > mplayer. > > The default in Myth is something like: > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s > > which doesn't work as Xvideo isn't supported using > the PVR 350's framebuffer > > I then changed it to: > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 %s > > Which gives me the slow video reported earlier: > > Following something I found in an earlier thread, I > then tried: > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo ivtv %s > I believe this uses the decoder on the 350 but X is running on top and solid so you wont see the output. You could try adding calls to ivtvctl to set the alpha value on the way in and out so that the video shows up. Something like
ivtvctl -alpha=0; mplayer... ; ivtvctl -alpha 255 I havent tried it but i would expect it to work. > In which case Mplayer starts, but never displays the > movie. I'm still > investigating this one. > > I'm not sure which updated driver you're talking > about, but I've > managed to get TV out working with both 0.3.2 (c) > and 0.2.0rc3c. The > main problem I had was that the IVTV X driver needed > to be installed > separately. I've so far tried one that I found at > http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ and also one of > Axel's RPM's at > http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ivtvdev/. Axel's one was > noticeable > faster, but X is still painfully slow, which is > casing problems when > you exit TV mode and it takes a while to redraw the > screen. > I'm not sure which version you have from Axel's site but it shouldn't be that painful on a 2.4G pentium. There is still work we can do to improve it but in these cases the screen has to be updated completely and that takes time. I hadn't really noticed that as being so slow but i'll take a look tonight. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
