[mythtv-users] directfb working, how ot setup mythtv to use ist

Martin Ebourne lists at ebourne.me.uk
Fri Dec 31 00:01:14 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:44 +0100, h.engemann wrote:
> I found a post in this list:
> -----
> You are better off running X on the board. Things look better than
> running
> the QT/Embedded version and the latest drivers probably wont support QT/E. 
> Also things like using mplayer or any other X app wont work that way either.
> 
> I started off running it this way but it really isn't worth the effort.
> If you do try this approach you don't need DirectFB support because you use
> the built in 350 output for playing back recordings.
> -----

I agree completely with the sentiments of that posting. I also ran myth
with directfb to start with and the results were disappointing.

> so are there any other methods getting a good looking TV out on the Matrox G450?

It is possible, but somewhat involved. Mine's a G550 and I run it under
X. There's no XV on the tv-out, so you need a decent processor to do
everything in software. Also no DMA, so you can only get 16 bit colour
due to PCI bandwidth, but you can get perfectly smooth video and the
results are pretty good generally.

There are some TV-out patches to X for G450 out there somewhere (google
for them), you might make progress with those. I use a somewhat re-
written version of matrox-tvout, written by Shaun Jackman. The last
version he published is on freshmeat, but he's got more recent stuff
than that if you mail him. It's written for the G550, but should be
hackable for G450.

Cheers,

Martin.



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