Brian J. Murrell (v4l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > Well sure but my dxr2 hardware decoder can play to a TV at 59.94 > > from a DVD and it works well. In movietime I intend to get software > > DVD playback to 59.94 working also. If you go pick up a dxr3 it can > > probably do it too. > > So why dick around with software and G400's and Radeons if a dxr[2|2] > does the job well? Or am I mis-understanding just how well the dxrs > do/don't work? MPEG2 only I guess. You can usually send MPEG1 too, you can't send them uncompressed frames. So you can't like, composite your cool OSD on top of your DVD-Video and send that out. > > Well still if you're sending buffers too fast you'll need to be > > blocked > > Right, but if you are blocked, hopefully you have done everything you > need to do until you can get a frame into the video card. The point is I don't know if there's anything to block you right now. You mentioned that mplayer uses a buffering mode, so I guess I should read their code, maybe this is already done. I was under the impression they just used the fbcon API after the second head was setup. You can't just provide an API that blocks you either, I mean, you need more timing information for audio, or if you're playing live TV you may want to deal with underruns differently (or try and adjust the output clock to match the input). > Right, but by access I guess I also meant documentation on how to do > it. ATI, for example, won't tell anyone how to enable TV-Out on > Radeons. Gatos seem to have figured it out as they have some amount > of TV-Out support for some Radeons. Are you sure about ATI not giving out documentation? Where did you hear that? I know lots of people who have aquired docs from ATI for their graphics chips... -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
