[mythtv-users] Playing DVDs on PVR-350

[Dudley Atkinson]

> Actually, you're both right.  There are two different MPlayer patches
> making the rounds.
>
> One of them ( http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Mar-2004/msg00135.html )
> patches MPlayer (v1.0pre3, so some updates/manual merging might be
> necessary) to send MPEG data directly to the PVR-350's decoder for video
> output (audio is still output using standard MPlayer audio drivers).
> This one is used with a command like:
>     mplayer -vo ivtv dvd://
> ( see http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Mar-2004/msg00125.html for usage info
> ).  Oh, and Dudley, you're right--it doesn't (always) work very well.
> It won't play some DVD's, but it does work very well for video recorded
> by the PVR-350.  Of course, MythTV already does that well...
>
> The second patch (
> http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv_apps/mplayer-ivtvosd.diff ) simply
> uses DMA to write the video data to the OSD/framebuffer (once again, the
> audio is still output with standard MPlayer audio drivers).  This one is
> used with a command like:
>     mplayer -vo ivtvosd dvd://
> This one works with all DVD's (that MPlayer could otherwise play),
> but--depending on your system--may result in a great deal of frame
> dropping.  YMMV.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________


Gotcha....

I think I'm headed toward using my nvidia display for the day-to-day things,
and using the ivtv driver just for playback (although the nvidia playback
quality looks pretty good).  I'd like to use the ivtv driver for all
display, but it does a lot of strange things here and there.

JD