On 11/20/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curtis White wrote: > > >> > >>>>> So is there some alternative of this that will allow me to view those > >>>>> files on the TV? I don't really even care to convert them because I > >>>>> don't plan on keeping them. I just want to watch them on my 52" TV > >>>>> instead of my 19" monitor. > >>>> > >>>> MythVideo (move the files from your recordings directory to your video > >>>> directory) and make sure you have John Harvey's Xv-compatible ivtvdev X > >>>> driver for your PVR-350. > >>> > >>> OK I do have the itdvdev driver and it is already setup on my > >>> framebuffer. So it sounds like I should be able to just move the > >>> files to my video directory and play them. I'll give that a try. Thank > >>> you. > >> > >> Assuming you have a recent enough version that contains Xv support... > > > > I should have the most recent version. I only installed MythTV a > > couple weeks ago. I know I'm at version 1.8.1 I believe. > > Actually, Myth has had Xv support "forever" (probably from the first > version, although I didn't check). It's the version of ivtvdev that's > important here.
Oh, ok. I downloaded the latest source of ivtv and compiled and installed it. So I'm assuming I have the latest version. But I'll see if I can find out for certain. > > > I tried doing > > this and for some reason it isn't working. I might not have things > > setup quite right for the framebuffer. > > > > In my xorg.conf file, in the Device section for the framebuffer I have > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350, Model 990" > > Driver "ivtvdev" > > Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" > > BusID "PCI:0:09:0" > > EndSection > > This is right. > > > But I have also seen instructions that show > > Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" > > This is wrong (this works for old, old, old, old versions of the driver). > > > I don't know which one is right. I have tried both and with the ivtv > > one I am able to watch Live TV on the TV screen. I don't know if it > > uses that or not for Live TV but since it was working I didn't change > > it. > > > > I am using the playback command: > > > > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo fbdev:/dev/fb1 %s > > When doing that, you're explicitly telling mplayer /not/ to use Xv. You > need to use: > > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s > > On the bright side, you have a relatively recent version of ivtvdev as > it's only within the last year and a half that it became incompatible > with the fbdev code. Whether your version is new enough to support Xv, > we still don't know. I know on the command line I can use -vo xv and it works fine. The only problem is that it displays it to my /dev/fb0 device instead of /dev/fb1. So when I use that it displays it to my PC monitor. How do I get it to use -vo xv but instead to send it to my /dev/fb1 device (the PVR350 output) instead? > > > > > When I run that command from the command line replacing %s with the > > .nuv file, it starts buffering the video for a few seconds and then > > dies because the buffer is full. It seems it cannot display on the > > framebuffer device. Am I doing this wrong? How should I be doing it if > > so? > > If you get skipped frames and/or max your processor usage, you don't > have Xv support in your driver. Search the lists for more info on > installing it. Any post from John Harvey explaining how to use it will > have the right information. Posts from anyone else may be referring to > old versions of ivtvdev. > OK, I'll search the list for those. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
