[mythtv] #1058 - what now?

[Buzz]

Daniel/Ivor,
	
I have learned the following info :

xvinfo reports, among other things:
		Adaptor 0: "Intel(R) Video overlay"
		maximum XvImage size 1440 x 1080

So that telling me that the largest permissable video overlay size is
1440x1080 (as I understand it), which obviously won't fit 1920x1080 into it.
:-)

	mplayer WILL NOT play these two HD channels when using '-vo xv' or
'-xv sdl'  as it crashes (with an X error stating it couldn't allocate
space, same error as myth encounters I expect).

      mplayer WILL play them with -vo options: x11 or gl or aa (it doesn't
do sound though, but I didn't look into that) The 'gl' is so slow/jerky it's
unworkable, but it at least displays.  'aa' is fun too.


Would it be possible to scale the video down to the 'maximum XvImage size'
(or somewhere under it)?

> BTW You can force MythTV to not try using XVideo by defining the "NO_XV"
environment variable before 
> running MythTV. However, you computer will probably be too slow for this
to work at HDTV resolutions.

I will also try this suggestion tomorrow, and advise if it's workable or
not.

Buzz.
	


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Kristjansson
> Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 11:30 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] #1058 - what now?
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 22:24 +1000, Buzz wrote:
> > Given that the MS windows software that comes with my DVB-T 
> card works 
> > just fine (by scaling the display output to either a selected 
> > resolution, or "full screen" - which is the largest scaling 
> that can 
> > be fitted in my display resolution without cropping), I would have 
> > thought that there was an equivalent in Myth...since Myth 
> is otherwise superior in just about every
> > aspect.   
> It is probably using something else to scale the video, your 
> video driver wanted to use 2332800 bytes for a buffer that 
> needed 3133440 bytes. What video card are you using?
> 
> > How do others cope when part of their display chain can't directly 
> > play (1080i)1920x1080 resolution, (or other big resolutions)?, but 
> > they still want to use HD?
> Usually they get a new video card, but can you try this 
> little experiment with mplayer?
> 
> mplayer allows you to try various video output methods using 
> the -vo option. Try them all and report back with the ones 
> that work, so we know what we might want to implement.. Be 
> careful as mplayer will print "The selected video_out device 
> is incompatible with this codec." sometimes, and select 
> another videoout device for you, in this case do not report 
> success with that video out device.
> 
> BTW You can force MythTV to not try using XVideo by defining 
> the "NO_XV" environment variable before running MythTV. 
> However, you computer will probably be too slow for this to 
> work at HDTV resolutions.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
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