Ok, here's a game for the list, it's a whole lot of little problems that I need a solution for maybe one or two of them. I just keep trying to sidestep one problem with an equally useful solution and instead find a new problem. Like most of the list, I have been building a PVR box. I have it to a very usable state, and just bought and installed the TV-out capable card. (ATI 3DrageII PCI with tvout) Everything was working nicely using a monitor, but switching to the TV-out card caused all kinds of problems that I didn't expect, I expected it to work the same as on the monitor. Problems: When running X in the FB, I use xawtv, and it works fine, performance is very acceptable in the framebuffer. However, to play back video I was using xine which was plenty fast on X but isn't quite fast enough on X via the framebuffer. Can this be improved somehow? Xv? SyncVB made to work with ATI? Can XINE be made to play full speed video with a framebuffer somehow? (ATI card) Ok, I sidestepped that problem by using mplayer, which works fast with a framebuffer and has adequate LIRC support. Except, here's the catch with it, in order to get full screen I use -vo vesa, and it switches my TV out screen into some mode that doesn't show X anymore when it ends. I can run mplayer again so it's not dead, but X is "lost". I feel the above problem could possibly be solved with "fbset" or similar, but fbset has never seemed to really do much on my system. I had a similar problem with fbtv. I tried fbtv and ditched X, and it worked, but same problems. Once mplayer has played and exited, my screen goes black and fbtv runs but doesn't show anything. (like the framebuffer isn't showing). mplayer works again so it's not dead but it's lost... Any ideas? I really just need the ability to switch between a TV-app and an mpg player app, both using a framebuffer (and X if required). It runs as a system script controlled by lirc. Ideas? Anyone doing similar things with an ATI tv-out card? -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@xxxxxxx ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ "Hail to thee, oh wide screen TV..." - Johnny Bravo
