[mythtv-users] Untranscode

[Michael T. Dean]

Curtis White wrote:

>On 11/20/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Curtis White wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>So is there some alternative of this that will allow me to view those
>>>>>>>files on the TV? I don't really even care to convert them because I
>>>>>>>don't plan on keeping them. I just want to watch them on my 52" TV
>>>>>>>instead of my 19" monitor.
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>MythVideo (move the files from your recordings directory to your video
>>>>>>directory) and make sure you have John Harvey's Xv-compatible ivtvdev X
>>>>>>driver for your PVR-350.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>OK I do have the itdvdev driver and it is already setup on my
>>>>>framebuffer. So it sounds like I should be able to just move the
>>>>>files to my video directory and play them. I'll give that a try. Thank
>>>>>you.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Assuming you have a recent enough version that contains Xv support...
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I should have the most recent version. I only installed MythTV a
>>>couple weeks ago. I know I'm at version 1.8.1 I believe.
>>>      
>>>
>>Actually, Myth has had Xv support "forever" (probably from the first
>>version, although I didn't check).  It's the version of ivtvdev that's
>>important here.
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>>
>Oh, ok. I downloaded the latest source of ivtv and compiled and
>installed it. So I'm assuming I have the latest version. But I'll see
>if I can find out for certain.
>  
>
The ivtvdev driver is shipped separately from the ivtv driver (since 
it's only useful to people with PVR-350's).  Download the X driver from 
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download and install.

>>>I am using the playback command:
>>>
>>>mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo fbdev:/dev/fb1 %s
>>>      
>>>
>>When doing that, you're explicitly telling mplayer /not/ to use Xv.  You
>>need to use:
>>
>>mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
>>
>>On the bright side, you have a relatively recent version of ivtvdev as
>>it's only within the last year and a half that it became incompatible
>>with the fbdev code. Whether your version is new enough to support Xv,
>>we still don't know.
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>I know on the command line I can use -vo xv and it works fine. The
>only problem is that it displays it to my /dev/fb0 device instead of
>/dev/fb1. So when I use that it displays it to my PC monitor. How do I
>get it to use -vo xv but instead to send it to my /dev/fb1 device (the
>PVR350 output) instead?
>  
>
You probably need something like:

DISPLAY=:0.1 mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s

It depends on your specific configuration.

Mike