Success Report: Dedicated DivX-Player w/TV-Out

7 Nov 2002

      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

Martin Emrich

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