Hi, as I wrote in an earlier mail, I am using softdevice (with a G550 card) quite successfully. One of the real advantages of softdevice is its crop mode that allows you to crop a 14:9 or 16:9 rectangle from a 4:3 broadcasting and rescale it to full screen on a 16:9 capable TV set (1280x720). Really nice. The downside is that my current living room machine is just not living room compatible (looks and noise). I would like to build a new VDR with a mini-ITX board (CLE266 or CN400) and use the xine libs and plugin. The question is, does xine provide something similar? I suspect that the answer is no because the rescaling needs to be done _after_ the MPEG2 decoding, which in case of the VIA chip is done in hardware. Is that right or is there hope? And - will xine rescale the picture to 1280x720 if it is encoded anamorphous? Softdevice does that automatically if you tell it the screen is 16:9. Really nice. :-) Alternatively, how good is the CLE266/CN400 support in DirectFB? That would be an alternative (with softdevice in turn). Most private TV stations in Germany simply don't get it as far as anamorphous encoding... -- There was a young poet named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He said, "Yes, I know. It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
