On Mon Nov 26 07:13:18 2001 Justin Schoeman wrote... > > >Don't know - it looks like you do not have the codec installed, or the >directory is incorrect? (The fast motion codec worked fine for me, but >under different software.) OK, I'm not weded to _anything_ at teh moment, just exprimenting. Pleas clue me in on what other software you are using. > >mplayer uses hardware scaling when it is available - which is for "-vo >x11", and some cards with the fb driver (I am not sure which though). I >use "-vo xv -fs" to view full screen using hardware stretching. I would have thought that my car (ATI) was pretty well supported. Any idea where to check on this? > >> PS. I understand that what I _really_ need to make this work is hardware >> MPEG encoding. The WinTV PVR vard seems to have this. Is anyone aware of a >> way to use this under Linux? > >Hardware compression isn't really required these days - especially not >on a dedicated box. I have recorded a F1 race quite satisfactorily on >my 600MHz Athlon using software compression. > Ah, a fgellow F1 fan! So what does your setup to do this (both record and player side please) look like. Perhaps I simply need to find the correct combination of software to work with my hardware? Thanks for the help on this! -- Stan Brown stanb@xxxxxxxx 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
