[MPlayer-users] Shuttle SpaceWalker (Savage4 TVOUT)

[Robinson, Chad]

I have the Shuttle SV24, which has their Spacewalker motherboard in a little
case. Actually, I have two. My comments:

1. A VIA C3 is too slow. (And I tried the fastest.) I've used Celeron 1000
and 1.1 chips, and they work fine. I only have problems with one or two
movies whose video resolutions don't display properly. (512xYYY modes seem
to be the biggest culprits, although only a few do it.) In those cases, I
can use "-screenx 640" to force them to display. (When they fail, the sound
will play, but the screen will be black.)

2. Use VESA Framebuffers compiled into the kernel. Use 800x600x32-bit color
mode. (I think this is 792 or 791, not the default LILO 793, if memory
services - it's off right now, so I can't check.)

3. Use MPlayer with the VESA output device. This works so well you'll think
you're using a DVD player, especially if you turn on postprocessing.

4. If you hook up an IRMan, you'll REALLY start to think you're using a DVD
player.

It's a perfect solution, although I need to quiet the fans down some.
MPlayer rocks. :-) At some point, I'm going to throw in an SBLive! to get
AC3 output, and get rid of my DVD player. (I have a DVD-ROM drive in the
PC.)

Regards,
Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Buenemann [mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:53 PM
To: mplayer-users at mplayer.dev.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Shuttle SpaceWalker (Savage4 TVOUT)


[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Tuesday, 19. February 2002 19:09, Sergio Bruder wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm considerating the possibility of using a Shuttle Spacewalker
> (flexATX solution) as a PVR.  But it has a Savage4 with TVOUT,
> composite and SVideo.
>
> Someone already uses that specific video board with TVOut with
> mplayer? is It 'strong' enough to support DiVX :) 720xblah with a
> slow Celeron or a VIA C3?
I have Savage/MX 8MB (same XFree driver), it handles about all sorts of
video 
ok on my PIII 850MHz (I can play DivX and DVD using XVideo or 
VESA+Softwarescaling to 1024x768 res). I don't know how much Savage 4 speed 
differs from MX, but I guess it's pretty much the same.
Btw. Cyrix CPUs suck, use a Celeron instead.

>
> (Ive already RTFM, it has a 'slow' XV support, whatever in practice
> is that)
Btw. I have a assembler optimized version of savage driver I send it to 
Gabucino, look around on MPlayer ftp for it, if you don't find it send me a 
private mail to get it.

>
> Its supported by VESA or VESA:VIDIX? what type of CPU requirement
> I'll have?
My Savage/MX works with:
- vo_vesa (fastest)
- vo_xv/vo_sdl (fast)
- vo_fbdev (with nocopy enabled bit slower then vo_vesa on vesafb)
- vo_x11 (very slow)
- vo_dga (fast, but slower then vo_vesa)

Prefered driver should be vo_xv/vo_sdl on X and vo_vesa on console.

You should use a 800MHz or more Celeron II (better spend a bit more on few 
extra MHz, they'll always help you).

>
> Sergio Bruder

-- 
Best Regards,
	Atmos
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