[mythtv] DirectFB/QTE on /dev/fb1 with ivtv / PVR-350

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 6 10:10:37 EST 2004


On Friday 06 February 2004 02:37, Martin Rehfeld wrote:
> ... Just to follow up on my own post, in case SB is interested.
>
> The relevant settings for choosing the output framebuffer are not in
> directfb but in QT-Embedded. One can either set the environment
> variable "QWS_DISPLAY=:/dev/fb1" or use the command line switch
> "-display
>
> :/dev/fb1".
>
> What is directfb acutally used for - I though it was the low level
> output driver below QT/E - am I missing something?

Hmmm, not sure, but I think DirectFB is for the hardware-accelerated 
video output (since we don't have Xv if we're not running X).  Qt/E is 
just for the basic UI display.  Somebody care to confirm?

-JAC



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