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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howdy,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have spent a few weeks trawling the archives
trying to get mplayer to work on my PVR-350 TV Out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a nice stable mythtv box running on FC2 with
everything installed via rpms from atrpms.net. It works fine for playing
back material which was recorded with mythtv.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been able to get mplayer to run in a window
under X (using -vo x11) but the performance on my mythtv pc (Celeron 1.7, 512MB
RAM, PVR-350) is unnaceptable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the help for mplayer it mentions two different
types of output, "ivtv" and "ivtvosd".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm assuming that ivtv is supposed to somehow
convert whatever is played to mpeg 2 and output it via the PVR-350's mpeg
decoder - however when I specify this opion, mplayer appears to be doing
something, but no video playback appears on the screen (I just get mplayer's
time counters).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I use the ivtvosd initially, I got an "Error
with sending DMA to ivtv FB! Invalid argument" error. Some reading up indicated
I had to specify "FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1" before my mplayer command to get this to
work. This stopped the error, however it did not display any video - I just
noticed a flickering band of garbage at the top of my screen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically what I'm asking is : </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it possible to use mplayer/xine to playback
non-mpeg2 material to the PVR-350 TV-OUT? I would have thought my system would
have sufficient CPU grunt to do so. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If someone has this working can you post the
command line options that you use? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What driver revisions do you require to get this to
work? I'm currenty using (ivtv-0.3.2h-71.rhfc2.at) from atrpms.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael Cheshire</FONT></DIV>
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