Re: [vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
2008/12/2 Gerald Dachs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After reading your mail I have tried yesterday again to use xcompmgr instead of compiz for the hud osd without success. The osd doesn't show up. I think my configuration can't be that wrong, as the hud osd is shown with compiz. Any hints what I have to look for? Do you start the xcompmgr with the -n switch? Does it start correctly? If I start xcompmgr without client side compositing then I'm unable to get hud to work properly. Which window manager you are using together with xcompmgr? Try to make sure that you have the Ubuntu desktop effects disabled as they will probably interfere with the operation of xcompmgr. -- Antti Seppälä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
2008/12/2 Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm... 2 minutes after I wrote my previous message my HTPC stuck without any way to control it beside the hardware reset. Don't know what killed it, but I have a feeling its the HUD display since when its used, VDR can't stop, it always segfaults. Without HUD its able to stop normally. Will try to find out later where it crashes. Anyone else seen that problem as well? Do you run vdr-sxfe as your display frontend or have you configured xineliboutput to use the local frontend? I've never noticed hud to cause such problems with vdr-sxfe... If you can reproduce this by running vdr with only xineliboutput plugin then more information about the crash (some logs or gdb backtrace) would help in debugging. -- Antti Seppälä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Antti Seppälä [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/1 Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Please advice how to configure xineliboutput in the best way... I have 1.7.1 + ext64 patches, xineliboutput 1.0.3, nVidia card with latest drivers. After many tests I have the following: Using --hud gives best OSD I ever seen, but it shows only the OSD when the output window is in focus and no playback. When I select another window (loose focus), I see the playback, but this way I can't control it... Reports about this pop-up occasionally so I'll try to clarify: You need a compositing window manager to see both the hud osd and video at the same time. I recommend xcompmgr because it can run in parallel to your normal window manager and serve the necessary compositing extensions as an addition. Of the compositing managers I've tried it also seems to be the fastest / least cpu intensive. So install xcompmgr and run: xcompmgr -n prior to starting vdr-sxfe --hud You'll need to setup xorg.conf so that compositing is enabled. IOW you should have lines similar to following in you xorg.conf: Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Thanks alot! xcompmgr is definitely takes less than compiz that I've tried to use. Concerning your other display issues (opengl osd etc.) I'd recommend trying without patched vdr and maybe latest version of xine-lib. False alert, I guess I had left a remote session to HTPC from other computer, so that caused high CPU usage. Right now I've set with XV video and I have about 12-15% CPU with cheap tvtime (mplayer mode) deinterlacing and 18-20% CPU with non-cheap deinterlacing mode which in my opinion gives best results I could find so far. OpenGL takes about 2-3% more than that. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Tony Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:05:54 +0200 Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I've set with XV video and I have about 12-15% CPU with cheap tvtime (mplayer mode) deinterlacing and 18-20% CPU with non-cheap deinterlacing mode which in my opinion gives best results I could find so far. OpenGL takes about 2-3% more than that. According to http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_The_DVB_Decoder_Challenge#Deinterlacing it should be possible to use OpenGL to mimic a CRT TV's phosphor for deinterlacing but I haven't seen or even heard of the idea put into practice. I'll try to play around with it more. In fact I saw better picture with OpenGL when deinterlacing was disabled at all. Not sure I saw those alternating alpha and alpha parameters in the menu... -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
Hi, Please advice how to configure xineliboutput in the best way... I have 1.7.1 + ext64 patches, xineliboutput 1.0.3, nVidia card with latest drivers. After many tests I have the following: Using --hud gives best OSD I ever seen, but it shows only the OSD when the output window is in focus and no playback. When I select another window (loose focus), I see the playback, but this way I can't control it... Using opengl video output gives me the best playback quality with lowest CPU usage, but it doesn't show any OSD at all, nor software nor hardware. Using xv video output with deinterlacing takes about 40-50% of CPU on my E6600 system. OSD is shown ok (don't remember already, but I think only software based OSD works well). Using xxmc video output with deinterlacing takes less than 40% CPU, hardware OSD works well, but with tvtime deinterlacing looks like frames are dropped. Non tvtime deinterlacing doesn't look that good. Using xvmc output doesn't work since there is a module that can't be found. Please advice how can it be configured to have both low CPU, good deinterlaced image and an OSD (preffered the --hud one). Thank you. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
