[vdr] 1080p ready VDR

2008-12-25 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi all, I'm new to this list and VDR in general, so if I'm missing some points or habits of this list, please feel free to correct me. I'm on the way of building a VDR. At the moment I'm searching for hardware recommendations, but this seems to be a hard task. What I want my VDR to do: -

Re: [vdr] 1080p ready VDR

2008-12-25 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi, Artem Makhutov schrieb: Take a look at: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/HDTV I did that, but there it said a Athlon64 at 2 GHz is sufficient. But I think your example shows, that this isn't... You can also use a Nvidia Video card with VDPAU, which will do the decoding in hardware.

Re: [vdr] 1080p ready VDR

2008-12-25 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi, Gerald Dachs schrieb: There are also Mainboards with onboard Nvidia 9300 or 9400 GPU's. They also support VDPAU. For an AMD 4850e CPU you can use Boards with 8200/8300 GPUs. They are very similar to the 9300/9400 GPUs on Boards for Intel CPUs. VDPAU supports the 8200/8300 GPUs, but there

[vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi all, as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos), it's now time to choose a DVB-S/2 card. I consider the TT 3200 and with a slight preference the Haupauge HVR-4000 (drivers in the kernel since

Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi, Nicolas Huillard schrieb: Sascha Vogt a écrit : And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times? I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on an NFS share, which

Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-09 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi Lauri, Lauri Tischler schrieb: Sascha Vogt wrote: as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos) Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ? Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro

Re: [vdr] OT question

2009-01-12 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi Lucian, Lucian Muresan wrote: Sascha Vogt wrote: Hi Lauri, Lauri Tischler wrote: Sascha Vogt wrote: as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos) Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean

Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-18 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi, Lauri Tischler schrieb: Sascha Vogt wrote: Lauri Tischler schrieb: Sascha Vogt wrote: as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD videos) Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ? Sorry

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput + vdpau not ready for prime time

2009-01-19 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi Gerald, Gerald Dachs schrieb: [...] The biggest problem is that if I switch channels it happens that the video starts to flicker. You can see that between the pictures of the current channel the pictures of the previous channel appear. Restarting vdr-sxfe fixes it till the next channel

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput + vdpau not ready for prime time

2009-01-20 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi, Gerald Dachs schrieb: I read something similar on the MythTV mailinglist. From http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/366684: In the end I believe it was accidental code bugs when he was porting the automatic letterboxing patch over to work with VDPAU that caused him to end