I have recently tried Softdevice output with mgatv on a g450 and can confirm that
the combination below gives a stable OSD and clear background above and
below the letterbox for widescreen material.

Kernel 2.6.12 (Mandriva2006 distro)
ffmpeg 0.4.9pre1 (Mandriva2006 rpm dated 2005-09-07)
VDR 1.4.1
Directfb cvs with patch from Stefan Lucke Tue, 05 Sep
Softdevice cvs

Interlaced output to composite TV works perfectly for the few channels I have
viewed so far.

I have however noticed a few problems:

I am getting 60% cpu usage on a Duron900 however video frames are being
dropped. Video 'jumps' occur aproximately every 10-20seconds. I have tried using
a multimedia kernel and vdr running at nice -5 but I noticed only a small
improvement.

If I exit from vdr and then run vdr with softdevice for a second time, the system
appears to lock up with no tv or monitor output, forcing a system reboot.
It seems I can run softdevice only once before having to reboot the system.

If I run vdr with softdevice and the text2skin plugin I can get no TV output at all.
I know the text2skin plugin works ok with my dxr3 setup.

Softdevice can only work with VDR run with root privelages. Is this correct?


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