On Thursday 14 Apr 2011, Stefan Lucke wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2011, Laz wrote:
> > I was beginning to think that softdevice was no longer being > > developed but was pleased to see a couple of CVS updates. > > Nice to see that there is someone still following the cvs list. I'd not seen any traffic in a long while and was pleasantly surprised! I'm still happily using softdevice with a Matrox G450. > > Has anyone had any success with using softdevice with any versions of > > vdr more recent than 1.7.0? This was when the change to TS happened. > > You'll find a patch attached which does work in "some way" with > vdr-1.7.15. Good stuff. I'll try to test it over the next few days... > It is not stable and sometimes it does not show video for some old > recordings, but it does show contend of german ARD HD & ZDF HD free > to air stations. > OSD is shown in upper left corner and drawing method has to be set to > software for my onboard card: > [ 38.290] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics" > (ChipID = 0x9610) > > Other disappointing thing is cpu consumption. Even my "AMD 64 X2 5600+" > is not enough: one core at it's limits and the other one idleing ;-) . Where I am (uk), we still don't have any terrestrial HD channels (can get them from satellites, though). Until I can receive HD easily, I don't want to have to build a meaty vdr box to handle the HD stuff or delve into VDPAU or similar. Looking at your patch, I think I'll have to undo some of the resolution changes you've made for HD! > Output method must be restructred, as decoding and displaying is done > in one thread (if I read the sources correct). > > I won't promise to much, but let's see what could be done. Sounds good. I've always much preferred the way softdevice doesn't require X to be running because it's one fewer layers to go wrong! There was some interest a few weeks back on the vdr mailing list about creating an output plugin that can provide output without X when softdevice has been doing it for years! Unfortunately, I think VDPAU and similar are tightly integrated into X, which is a pain. I don't think it's possible to feed frames to the VDPAU libraries and output directly to a frame buffer but I could be wrong! Cheers, Laz _______________________________________________ Softdevice-devel mailing list Softdevice-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/softdevice-devel
