In <431C9E69.8040306@xxxxxxxxx>, Tomas Prybil wrote: > We have now a working HDTV feed here no by the polar bears ;) > Canal+ have a channel named "Canal+ More HD" that sends a couple of > films every night. > > I've seen some threads in the past trying to get a working setup. Maybe > you all have working solutions, but I'm still trying to get something > working. > > Right now the status for me is as follows. > Kernel 2.6.12 with matrox G450 and fb device > budget card with CI > vdr-1.3.31 > Which gives me a working recording setup. > > I haven't yet been able to setup a working frontend for viewing (HD). > With fbxine/vidix and the xine-plugin i can watch normal feed perfectly > well but as soon as i switch to the HD feed the box goes boom. Not even > a smallest kernel panic or trace. The machine just looks up completely. > It's reproduceable with cmdline fbxine (fbxine 0.99.3) and a vdr file. > > Viewing the vdr files with mplayer/vidix works OK but takes all CPU > cyles of a 3Ghz PIV. Would directfb make that any better? ISTR reading that the Matrox hardware features usually used to accelerate video playback can't cope with HDTV. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
