Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-06 Thread Alex Betis
As far as I understand Intel presented their new chips on CES show called Arrandale and Clarkdale. Both has integrated graphics accelerator and other things. Those will be based on i7, i5 and i3 cores. In addition to Atom based pineview chips that also include graphics accelerator. So now we have

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 00:14 +0300, Goga777 a écrit : I wish we could get away from xine. how ? does it possible at all ? softdevice uses ffmpeg with DirectFB, and works wonderfully (worked, in my case). Lack of X11 brings a lot of little improvements. In a pure STB setup, X11 is really

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Goga777
Hi according of discussion in Official linux kernel mailing list http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1173758# in 2.6.34 kernel we will have Crystal HD driver Goga ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:12:30 +0100 Nicolas Huillard nico...@huillard.net wrote: Le mardi 05 janvier 2010 à 00:14 +0300, Goga777 a écrit : I wish we could get away from xine. how ? does it possible at all ? softdevice uses ffmpeg with DirectFB, and works wonderfully (worked, in my

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 05 Jan 2010, Tony Houghton wrote: I had problems with softdevice, including A/V sync, but I think that was one of the areas the developers were putting a lof of effort into improving. Another thing I like about the xine plugins is that you can leave VDR running in the background for

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:01:41 + Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: I'm watching this sort of thread with interest...no free HD content in the UK yet (at least over DVB-T) but it's on the way in the next few years. No immediate need for getting an HD tele' or beefing up my vdr box for HD

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:29 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:01:41 + Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: The trouble with a purpose-built decoder is that it takes up a valuable PCI(-E) slot when there are plenty of motherboards with onboard graphics which should be

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:32:03 + Gavin Hamill g...@acentral.co.uk wrote: The Crystal HD decoder will doubtless appear in netbooks very soon, and I fully expect thin Intel Atom PCs to also feature it on-board. When those boards/machines appear, we will be on the way to a *reliable* open

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-04 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: I wish we could get away from xine. Too many layers. VDR/VDPAU/XINE/XORG. End up with lots of problems, change channels oo fast, somthing crashes, weak signal, something crashes, FF/RW speed changing sometimes crashes, with

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-04 Thread Goga777
I wish we could get away from xine. how ? does it possible at all ? VDR/VDPAU/XINE/XORG. End up with lots of problems, change channels oo fast, somthing crashes, weak signal, something crashes, FF/RW speed changing sometimes crashes, with all the buffering, get slow channel change, slow

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-03 Thread Lars Bläser
Michael Stepanov wrote: Does somebody use it to watch HD channels with VDR? As I understand that solution can give the same result as nVidia Ion? yes, ebsi got it working http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=91157 Status update : Setup : archlinux, kernel 2.6.28, vdr 1.7.10,

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:22:59PM +0300, Goga777 wrote: what about of corrected interlace output ? Most of them videocards can't   do it correctly I can't answer that unfortunately. let's hope that Crystal HD can do deinterlacing and scaling Yeah, and hopefully it can do

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-03 Thread gimli
Hello, i use it with vdr 1.7.10, xine-lib-1.2, vdr-xine, and the xine decoder plugin i wrote at : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/archvdr/browser/branches/libcrystalhd cu Edgar (gimli) Hucek Michael Stepanov schrieb: Does somebody use it to watch HD channels with VDR? As I understand

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-03 Thread gimli
Hehe, yes thats me ;) Lars Bläser schrieb: Michael Stepanov wrote: Does somebody use it to watch HD channels with VDR? As I understand that solution can give the same result as nVidia Ion? yes, ebsi got it working http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=91157 Status update :

[vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear list, I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD playback with free drivers [2]. You can get it at as an mini-PCIE card at eBay for 22 $ [3]. If this is all true in my opinion these are

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Torgeir Veimo
2010/1/2 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net: I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD playback with free drivers [2]. You can get it at as an mini-PCIE card at eBay for 22 $ [3].

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Goga777
I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD playback with free drivers [2]. You can get it at as an mini-PCIE card at eBay for 22 $ [3]. I'd recommend the BCM70015, which is the better

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Torgeir Veimo
2010/1/2 Goga777 goga...@bk.ru: what about of corrected interlace output ? Most of them videocards can't  do it correctly I can't answer that unfortunately. For those that don't have a mini pci express port, this one might come in handy; http://www.bplus.com.tw/Adapter/MP1.html -- -Tor

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Paul Menzel ha escrit: Dear list, I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD playback with free drivers [2]. You can get it at as an mini-PCIE card at eBay for 22 $ [3]. If this is all

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Goga777
I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD playback with free drivers [2]. You can get it at as an mini-PCIE card at eBay for 22 $ [3]. If this is all true in my opinion these are

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Goga777
what about of corrected interlace output ? Most of them videocards can't   do it correctly I can't answer that unfortunately. let's hope that Crystal HD can do deinterlacing and scaling in crystalhd/include/7411d.h there's lines /* scaling on/off */ /* -

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Problem is, that is just a chip. Any boards out using it? Linux drivers? Torgeir Veimo wrote: 2010/1/2 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net: I just share something I read on the XBMC [1] Web site. The Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) seems to be an alternative for HD

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Goga777
Приветствую, Timothy Problem is, that is just a chip. Any boards out using it? Linux drivers? no. it's pci-e mini board with chip and Linux open source driver http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/crystalhd/crystalhd_linux_20091229.zip Torgeir Veimo wrote: 2010/1/2 Paul Menzel

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Manu Abraham
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: Problem is, that is just a chip. Any boards out using it? Linux drivers? It is not a single chip. It is a combination of 2 chips. The card will be available soon from Azurewave

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Stepanov
Does somebody use it to watch HD channels with VDR? As I understand that solution can give the same result as nVidia Ion? On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Manu Abraham abraham.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: Problem is, that is

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-02 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I as refering to the BCM70015. No plugin boards for it yet. the board mentioned is for the 0012 version. I wonder if this stuff will work any better then vdpau/xine. I have yet to get that mess working relablly. using an Asus 8400 silent. On 1/2/2010 11:28 AM, Goga777 wrote: Приветствую,