Cool! Then I will try it out a bit more! So far I only tried the version in minimyth, and it had no DVI support, but hopefully I will find that openchrome in minimyth was just too old :)
How come mpeg4 has so much feed-overhead? mpeg2 should reasonably need more feeding, since the compression ratio is so much lower? Or am I just confused here? Nice! Do you know about mplayer? (currently my favorite mediaplayer) Thanks for the reply, //Martin On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:06 PM, John Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/05/2008 09:39, Martin Kihlgren wrote: > [...] > > > > 3) openchrome claims to work, apart from mpeg2, mpeg4 and some other > > stuff. And as far as I understand also apart from DVI. > > > > 3.1) openchrome seems like a serious and well maintained project, so > > perhaps these features are on their way or perhaps (though I deem it > > unlikely) I will be able to understand the openchrome code well enough > > to be able to assist in building these missing features. > > > > I was under the impression mpeg2 XvMC support for CX700 was coming Real > Soon Now; I hope I've got this right, but if I'm wrong I'm sure I'll be > corrected :-) > > And mpeg4 support is probably never going to happen, because the overhead > of feeding the unit means you can do it faster in CPU, and those few chips > that have it only help with H.263, while most broadcasters are using H.264 > anyway. > > > > > 4) I have no clue how to make mplayer, xine or vlc (or any other media > > player) work with the mpeg2 and mpeg4 decoders, even if I get them to > > work. > > > > xine and mythtv will pretty much Just Work out of the box with XvMC. > > I'd say try openchrome trunk and if that doesn't work for you, try the > randr branch which may be better on CX700. > > Cheers, > > John. > _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
