[MPlayer-users] Success Report: Dedicated DivX-Player w/TV-Out

[Martin Emrich]

Hi!

On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 01:29:10 +0000
Roberto De Leo <deleo at unica.it> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi Martin,
> I started developing two similar projects [one without X and one with X]
> two months ago, if you are interested you can get more info from
>     http://movix.sf.net/
> 
> The one with X is called MoviX2.
> It uses the full X 4.2.0 libraries and supports all audio cards supported
> by the OSS and (in principle) all video cards supported by XFree86,
> and it has been reported working [more or less] fine with Matrox, Ati
> and NVidia cards.
> It boots from CD using SysLinux, loads the whole system in RAM,
> contains a mplayer compiled with support for most of the vo drivers
> [xmga,xv,x11,dga,gl,gl2,sdl,xvidix,fbdev,vesa,aa] and runs on machines
> with >= 96MB RAM, but Ati TV-out is still pretty unstable [did not manage
> to make gatos drivers working].
I actually do no longer use ATI TV Out, the TV set is directly connected
to the VGA Connector. But TV-Out works too (I used it before I got the
Modeline working), I connected the TV to the TV-Out before powering on
the Computer, and used -vo vesa:vidix . In both cases, the software
not really knows that it's playing to a TV... 
> 
> It would be very nice if you'd want to help me setting up the TV-out
> for Ati cards, but in any case you may find MoviX2 useful to expand
> your own project.

I'll try to grab some time to test it.

Ciao

Martin
> 
> Hope it helps,
>  Roberto
> 
> Martin Emrich wrote:
> 
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Hi!
> >
> >I just got to say this because I'm really happy now *g*
> >
> >I finally got my DivX-Player-PC working:
> >
> >- P2/400, 128MB RAM
> >
> >- Diskless Boot via Etherboot,DHCP,NFS-Root, running Debian Woody
> >
> >- ATI All-In-Wonder Pro (4 MB PCI)
> >
> >- VGA to RGB Adapter (see e.g.
> >http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~pfeffer/tvout/ 
> >  for the circuit / modelines) - Definitely the finest possible picture
> >because
> >  no in-between converting to composite/s-video, but requires a RGB
> >capable
> >  TV set
> >
> >- minimal XFree86 4.1.0 (atyfb.o doesn't like interlaced)
> >
> >- uses mplayer -vo x11 (-vo vidix seem not to work with interlaced
> >modes,
> >  I got only the upper half of the video, the lower half was magenta),
> >but
> >  it's fast enough to play DivX/MPEG4 Videos
> >
> >- Logitech Cordless Keyboard (definitely the biggest remote ever seen
> >*fg*)
> >
> >TODO: - upgrade to XFree86 4.2.1 for xv support
> >      - nice pick-a-video GUI
> >
> >As soon as it's running stable & reliable, I might put the stuff on a
> >website.
> >
> >bye
> >
> >Martin
> >
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