On Mon Nov 26 07:13:18 2001 Justin Schoeman wrote...
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>
>Don't know - it looks like you do not have the codec installed, or the 
>directory is incorrect? (The fast motion codec worked fine for me, but 
>under different software.)

OK, I'm not weded to _anything_ at teh moment, just exprimenting. Pleas
clue me in on what other software you are using.
>
>mplayer uses hardware scaling when it is available - which is for "-vo 
>x11", and some cards with the fb driver (I am not sure which though).  I 
>use "-vo xv -fs" to view full screen using hardware stretching.

I would have thought that my car (ATI) was pretty well supported. Any idea
where to check on this?

>
>> PS. I understand that what I _really_ need to make this work is hardware
>> MPEG encoding. The WinTV PVR vard seems to have this. Is anyone aware of a
>> way to use this under Linux?
>
>Hardware compression isn't really required these days - especially not 
>on a dedicated box.  I have recorded a F1 race quite satisfactorily on 
>my 600MHz Athlon using software compression.
>

Ah, a fgellow F1 fan!

So what does your setup to do this (both record and player side please)
look like. Perhaps I simply need to find the correct combination of
software to work with my hardware?

Thanks for the help on this!

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