[mythtv-users] xbox mythtv

John Klimek jmk396 at psu.edu
Thu Aug 7 14:28:12 EDT 2003


I'm just curious... do you guys leave your x-box on 24/7 ?



On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:23:27, "Allen T. Gilliland IV" wrote:

> This could also be the frame buffer driver you are
> using.  You should really try to user the rivafb
> driver ... it performs much better than the vesa.  I
> know that switching from gentoox to debian+riva fixed
> all my problems, but it may have fixed the problem
> Dennis mentioned below as well without me realizing
> it.
> 
> Whatever the problem is you should be able to playback
> anything you want.  I have 640x480 mpeg4 @ 4400 kb/s
> and mp3 sound ... and that plays back perfectly on my
> xbox.  I am just about to switch to a pvr-250 and then
> i'll do the max of about 720x480.  mpeg2 files should
> be even easier for the xbox to playback as well, so
> you shouldn't be limited to the settings of 480x480.
> 
> -- Allen
> 
> 
> --- Dennis Cartier <pvr at trigger.net> wrote:
> 
> > Actually I do know what causes this. :) I record at
> > 640x480 on my PVR-250
> > and everything plays fine with no slow motion effect
> > ... but there is a
> > little black border around the picture. If I use xbv
> > to try to adjust the
> > video to fix the border than I get the slow motion
> > effect.
> > 
> > I have not really spent much time on it but my
> > theory is that there are a
> > few 'native' settings where everything is hardware
> > accelerated, and if you
> > start tweaking with xbv, you can get it looking
> > perfect, but cause it to
> > have to do a lot of work in software. I still have
> > to back and test if there
> > are other 'native' overscan settings that eliminate
> > the borders and do not
> > induce the penalty.
> > 
> > So if you are using xbv to adjust your video, try it
> > without and see if
> > 480x480 or even 640x480 works better.
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > 
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