Well, I probably will end up throwing money at the problem, but I won't
like doing it. The video card is old, yes, but not <span style="font-style: italic;">that </span>old. I bought it new in 2003! <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff
</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">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 22:46, Chris Ribe wrote:
<br>> Minor success!<br>><br>> If I make the window wider than my desktop, the video plays back normally.<br>> Of course, it has also crashed x once and hard frozen the computer another<br>> time. Perhaps the -panscan option will help me out.
<br>><br>> On 1/11/06, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > The output from the cable box is an MPEG-TS stream over firewire.<br>> > Playback works fine for 720p channels. The clip I am testing with was
<br>> > captured off of PBS.<br>> ><br>> > I've tried playing the clip back at half size with VLC, and the results<br>> > were the same. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do any scaling<br>> > with mplayer.
<br>> ><br>> > The GPU is an old nVidia GeForce2 card w/ 32MB of ram. I don't know much<br>> > more than that.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Here is the current state of my xorg.conf (I switched to the xv driver
<br>> > earlier this evening, disregard the monitor section as that is not<br>> > 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<br>> > 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"<br>> > "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<br>> > EndSubSection<br>> > EndSection<br>> ><br>> > Section "DRI"
<br>> > Group 0<br>> > Mode 0666<br>> > EndSection<br>> ><br>> > On 1/11/06, Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > 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
<br>> > ><br>> > > same<br>> > ><br>> > > > problem.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Perhaps it is a peculiarity in the transport stream from the cable<br>> > >
<br>> > > box,<br>> > ><br>> > > > perhaps a newer video card would help. I guess I'll just keep<br>> > ><br>> > > plugging<br>> > ><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">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<br>> > > > > or
<br>> > > > ><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<br>> > > > > > x?<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > Yes, normally, but I have heard tell of nVidia setups where it
<br>> > > > > still loads nVidia even if you do that. The actual X server is an<br>> > > > > executable usually linked to "X" (note the cap) someplace like<br>> > > > > /usr/ 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<br>> > >
<br>> > > 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><br>I've seen this before, I think it was on an oooooold nvidia card as well. xv<br>couldn't handle resizing the video smaller for whatever reason (I was way too
<br>newbie in linux to have figured it out) and would tear the video. I would try<br>a new card with more memory perhaps?<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>
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