[mythtv-users] PIP not working with 0.13?

[IvanK.]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:59 am, jose rubio wrote:
> top posting re arranged...
>
> > On Saturday 13 December 2003 07:19 am, jose rubio wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:17, IvanK. wrote:
> > > > Guys,
> > > >
> > > > anyone else here in the same boat?
> > > >
> > > > The facts: myth 0.13, one pvr-350, one freestyle.  The pvr350 is the
> > > > first card, video0, and the freestyle is video1.  When I start PIP, I
> > > > get these messages:
> > > >
> > > > 2003-12-12 23:08:53 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> > > > 2003-12-12 23:08:57 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try
> > > > 1 of 5) Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
> > >
> > > I thought you that if you had the 350 tv-out you could not have pip.
> > >
> > >
> > > -jose-
>
> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:04, IvanK. wrote:
> > Jose,
> >
> > thanks for replying.  I was wondering where you found this information. 
> > I looked at the howto and the faq, but neither has anything on problems
> > with pip on pvr-350.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > IvanK.
>
> I did not really read it anywhere as much as I tried it and figured out
> there was a problem.  The reason you can't have pip (yet?... ever?...
> anyone?) i believe is that the tv-out of the 350 cannot be scaled in
> size.  You just send a mpeg stream to it and it puts it on the tv
> screen.
>




actually the second ringbuffer is already scaled down to 160x128, so I see no 
reason why this legit mpeg stream could not just be output.




> Hence you can not have the preview of recorded shows, nor the small
> preview screen on the epg, nor the pip.
>
> Anyway, I could be way off but that is what I think is going on.
>
> I hope I'm wrong and there is a work-around...
>
>
> -jose-
> ps:  there's something wrong with your "reply-to" field in you
> emails...  I think you want it to be mythtv-users at mythtv.org when you
> are posting to the list.