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]. 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. 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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