Minor success!<br>
<br>
If I make the window wider than my desktop, the video plays back
normally. Of course, it has also crashed x once and hard frozen
the computer another time. Perhaps the -panscan option will help
me out.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Ribe</b> <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The output from the cable box is an MPEG-TS stream over firewire.
Playback works fine for 720p channels. The clip I am testing with
was captured off of PBS. <br>
<br>
I've tried playing the clip back at half size with VLC, and the results
were the same. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do any
scaling with mplayer. <br>
<br>
The GPU is an old nVidia GeForce2 card w/ 32MB of ram. I don't know much more than that. <br>
<br>
<br>
Here is the current state of my xorg.conf (I switched to the xv driver
earlier this evening, disregard the monitor section as that is not
actually my monitor):<br>
<br>
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display<br>
<br>
Section "ServerLayout"<br>
Identifier "single head configuration"<br>
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br>
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br>
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Files"<br>
<br>
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the<br>
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally<br>
# no need to change the default.<br>
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)<br>
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of<br>
# the X server to render fonts.<br>
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"<br>
FontPath "unix/:7100"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Module"<br>
Load "dbe"<br>
Load "extmod"<br>
Load "fbdevhw"<br>
## Load "glx"<br>
Load "record"<br>
Load "freetype"<br>
Load "type1"<br>
Load "dri"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "InputDevice"<br>
<br>
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))<br>
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"<br>
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.<br>
# Option "XkbDisable"<br>
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the<br>
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.<br>
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:<br>
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"<br>
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:<br>
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"<br>
#<br>
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.<br>
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:<br>
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"<br>
# or:<br>
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"<br>
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"<br>
#<br>
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and<br>
# control keys, use:<br>
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"<br>
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:<br>
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"<br>
#<br>
Identifier "Keyboard0"<br>
Driver "kbd"<br>
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br>
Option "XkbLayout" "us"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "InputDevice"<br>
Identifier "Mouse0"<br>
Driver "mouse"<br>
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"<br>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Monitor"<br>
Identifier "Monitor0"<br>
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"<br>
ModelName "Dell 1905FP (Analog)"<br>
DisplaySize 370 270<br>
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0<br>
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0<br>
Option "dpms"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Device"<br>
Identifier "Videocard0"<br>
Driver "nv"<br>
VendorName "Videocard vendor"<br>
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Screen"<br>
Identifier "Screen0"<br>
Device "Videocard0"<br>
Monitor "Monitor0"<br>
DefaultDepth 24<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 16<br>
Modes "800x600" "640x480"<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 24<br>
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1280x800"
"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br>
EndSubSection<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "DRI"<br>
Group 0<br>
Mode 0666<br>
EndSection<div><span class="e" id="q_108bc85ed7921a86_1"><br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">adeffs@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:11, Chris Ribe wrote:<br>> Neither of them worked, unfortunately.<br>><br>> Using the nv driver resulted in a slightly different version of the same<br>> problem.<br>><br>> Perhaps it is a peculiarity in the transport stream from the cable box,
<br>> perhaps a newer video card would help. I guess I'll just keep plugging<br>> away and see if I can figure something out. Thanks for your help.<br>><br>> On 1/11/06, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:<br>> > > Sorry, I need a little hand holding here.<br>> > ><br>> > > I assume I can unload the nVidia driver by issuing
<br>> > ><br>> > > #modprobe -r /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp/updates/drivers/<br>> > > video/nvidia/nvidia-1_0-7676.ko<br>> ><br>> > Or just "rmmod nvidia", "lsmod" will tell you if it's still there or
<br>> > not.<br>> ><br>> > > but loading the nv driver, I'm not so sure about.<br>> > ><br>> > > Can I just replace the<br>> > ><br>> > > Driver "nvidia" line in
xorg.conf with, Driver "xv" and restart x?<br>> ><br>> > Yes, normally, but I have heard tell of nVidia setups where it still<br>> > loads nVidia even if you do that. The actual X server is an
<br>
> > executable usually linked to "X" (note the cap) someplace like /usr/<br>> > X11R6/bin (seems like everybody puts it in a different place.<br>> ><br>> > That should be "nv" not "xv", I'm assuming that was a typo. "xv" is
<br>> > something completely different.<br>> ><br>> > My guess is that if commenting out "load glx" does not work then<br>> > loading "nv" instead of nvidia will not work either, but you never know.
<br><br>which GPU card?<br>whats your xorg.conf have for loading the nvidia driver?<br>does the issue occur when you playback 1080i content at 1/2 size?<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________
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