En/na Nicolas Huillard ha escrit: > Leo M?rquez a ?crit : > >> En/na Nicolas Huillard ha escrit: >> >>> Sebastian a ?crit : >>> >>>> Seems like many people actually like using an EPIA with a budget card. >>>> What I would like to know is what possibilities are there to >>>> connect to >>>> a TV set? I mean the Epia just features a simple fbas tv-out, >>>> right? So >>>> that's a downside, because with a J2 pinblock on a FF card you can use >>>> RGB or S-Video instead of FBAS. Or am I missing anything? >>> >>> >>> EPIA M also have a s-video connector. Maybe you are refering to >>> older EPIAs without this conneector. >>> Better quality is achieved using the VGA connector to a LCD/plasma >>> TV. And I mean really better quality. Tony Grant could explain more >>> on this. >>> You can also directly use your average CRT monitor, which is already >>> far better than any TV. >>> >> Well after this a lot of information I have decided try to set VDR >> with only one DVB-t budget pci card. >> I have a FF dvb-s card but epia have only one pci and I dont have the >> riser card to get 2 pci's from the one pci of the epia. >> If I obtain good results without FF card (using HW accel from epia >> CLE266) I will buy a bugdet dvb-s card, probably nova-s from haupaugge. >> >> My TV is a normal Loewe 100Hz with scarts. >> My htpc case is the Silverstone LC11M (front 2 lines display and ir) >> My distro is debian >> The kernel I have thought to use is the 2.6.11.10 with the config >> file from epiawiki.org: >> >> Mostly-minimalist .config file for a Epia M or M2 used as a >> multi-media server. Based on Gentoo 2.6.11-r5. >> is located here: >> http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=14 > > > This config does not have the viafb frame-buffer set, but DRM is. This > is maybe aimed at X setup, not frame-buffer/DirectFB. > >> And add the dvb driver in the kernel. >> I supose that the next steps can be: >> - lirc - softdevice? (I supose that I have to use the s-vga to >> scart connection from epia to my TV > > > You mean "s-video" connector (round, yellow), not vga (d-sub, blue). Yes! sorry I meant s-video > >> But I continue having dubts and a lot of information that confuse me. >> The last post by Laurence Abbott has left me outside orbits. >> >> I don't understand if is better to me use softdevice or xine and how >> to set X without desktop. > > > softdevice = no X, just VDR. You won't have the possibility to add a > browser, for instance. HW acceleration using CLE266? > > Xine works best on EPIA with XvMC, so it needs X, and you will have > the possibility to use the computer for something else than VDR (if > you add a keyboard, a mouse, and so on). > > You can maybe just test each one ? > > How to set X without desktop : install XFree, don't run > /etc/init.d/gdm at startup, then type "startx" on a console. This will > bring X for your login, with a single xterm. No window manager, awful > look. Type ^D in the xterm, this will quit X an return to the console. > That's the old-fashionned way to start X (thus the name of the > command). Add commands to you ~/.xinitrc script and these will be > executed inside you X session, instead of the single xterm. > I supose It's possible to execute automatically this with a init.d script.It's ok? >> - display plugin? (anyone can tell me one?) > > > The display plugin is either softdevice or vdr-xine or xineliboutput. > Just choose. I'm refering to the VFD display of the htpc case. >> I have set up a VDR in a normal PC compiling it from source code and >> the usual plugins. Do you recommend continue this way or is better >> use the etobi debian packages? What advantages has each method? > > > e-tobi won't bring you softdevice for the moment. I don't know for > vdr-xine, but XvMC is not part of XFree on Debian. Use another > repository for that (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian/) > Get the e-tobi packages that are available, and compile the missing > ones yourself. As long as you do not patch VDR, you won't have to > recompile too much. If you start to patch VDR, you have to recompile > everything. > >> In the other hand I'm sure this experience will get to me some >> knowledge that I want to share with VDR newbies and experts. But in >> my language, spanish. Perhaps I publish a spanish VDR wiki or similar. >> >> Thanks for all to all!! > > -- Salutacions, Leo M?rquez
