[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Matrox G400 TV out w/ DirectFB

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Nov 11 19:28:30 CET 2002


Hi,

> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:27:03AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote:
> > >   I just want an API to the TV output as a Y'CbCr surface independent of
> > > the fb device, so that way I can use my TV output while running X and
> > > have them not know about each other.
> > 
> > That should be possible with DirectFB multi-app core. I did run mplayer on
> > my TV and XDirectFB on my monitor at one point. I haven't tried it
> > again recently since the DirectFB multi-app core has received major
> > surgery and I wanted to wait until it's all done.
> 
>   Ugh, I don't really want to run XDirectFB, that seems like waay too much
> pain to be worth it.

me too. and i also want real textmode on head 1, while playing movies on TV
:)

sw scaling is not a problem, as
- we have very fast sw scaler
- dvds don't need scaling, they are already 720x576


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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