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From: Jay T. <jth...@ui...> - 2002-04-03 00:02:32
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So I got a lot of things working on my G200 now. The primary functions are: a) lircd driven remote control interface to playback about 150 online DVD's in divx4 format (it's a perl script that has IMDB information about all movies, right now read from small files on disk; gonna change that into a database soon. I have multiple 100+GB hd's on the machine.) b) TV-recording & conversion into divx (TV-recording is database driven w/ data automatically imported from XMLTV->mysql & then parsed for what shows (there is a "season pass" database) to record each day. Recording is in mjpeg -d21, 80% quality & converted into divx4 overnight, after conversion 1/2 hour of TV is ~100MB w/ minimal quality loss) This is on a celeron 900 in a NLX case that sits under my TV. TV-out works pretty well & applications are fired by buttons on the remote. The remote is one of those logitech wanna be PVR remotes that go on ebay for ~$10. I have a hoontech sound card with digital audio out for a little better sound than the built in audio. At some point I'm going to make the above codes public. I'll mail out stuff if anyone wants it. Right now I'm working on a TV out remote driven mp3 player & a TV viewing user interface. (Is there a good TV-out mp3 player, I guess I should just make a skin for xmms) What I'm having problems with: a) I'm a little disapointed with the TV quality. Any recommendations for lavrec settings? b) Sometimes I get grey vertical stripes on the screen that I fix by running an XV app or running matroxset again. I think there was some discussion of this before but I didn't see any resolution. A friend has a similar setup and does not have the same problem although he has the TV-out on boot BIOS for the G200. Any ideas? c) I never quite got a really good modeline for NTSC out. I have 640x480 working OK but never got any other resolutions including TV native to work very well. (Usually I get black areas on the screen and/or right side runs over to left) Any ideas group? Anyone else with a similar setup? Thanks, -Jay -- Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. This message Copyright (c) 2001 Jay Thomas Jay Thomas, jth...@ui... http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2 |
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From: Ryan V. <ry...@ry...> - 2002-04-03 15:02:24
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I am running a very similar setup. I use lavrec to record TV at 80% quality, reencode to MPEG1 in VCD sized chunks (playable in my DVD player). The /vcr directory is NFS exported so any computer in the house can watch recorded TV using MPlayer. I am using matroxfb/matroxset to put the console on the TV and use MPlayer/mga_vid to playback. I too have the same problem that the image is slightly off to the left durring playback. You definatly have me beat in hard drive space :^O I only have 30GB so I use CDRs. My box is: AMD K6 500, 96MB ram, 30GB hd, G200 Marvel video, Slackware 8.0 Is your software console based or X? I wouldn't mind checking it out and helping develop it. Ryan On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jay Thomas wrote: > So I got a lot of things working on my G200 now. > > The primary functions are: > a) lircd driven remote control interface to playback about 150 online DVD's in > divx4 format (it's a perl script that has IMDB information about all movies, > right now read from small files on disk; gonna change that into a database > soon. I have multiple 100+GB hd's on the machine.) > b) TV-recording & conversion into divx (TV-recording is database driven w/ data > automatically imported from XMLTV->mysql & then parsed for what shows (there is > a "season pass" database) to record each day. Recording is in mjpeg -d21, 80% > quality & converted into divx4 overnight, after conversion 1/2 hour of TV is > ~100MB w/ minimal quality loss) > > This is on a celeron 900 in a NLX case that sits under my TV. TV-out works > pretty well & applications are fired by buttons on the remote. The remote is > one of those logitech wanna be PVR remotes that go on ebay for ~$10. > > I have a hoontech sound card with digital audio out for a little better sound > than the built in audio. > > At some point I'm going to make the above codes public. I'll mail out stuff if > anyone wants it. Right now I'm working on a TV out remote driven mp3 player & a > TV viewing user interface. (Is there a good TV-out mp3 player, I guess I should > just make a skin for xmms) > > What I'm having problems with: > a) I'm a little disapointed with the TV quality. Any recommendations for lavrec > settings? > b) Sometimes I get grey vertical stripes on the screen that I fix by running an > XV app or running matroxset again. I think there was some discussion of this > before but I didn't see any resolution. A friend has a similar setup and does > not have the same problem although he has the TV-out on boot BIOS for the G200. > Any ideas? > c) I never quite got a really good modeline for NTSC out. I have 640x480 > working OK but never got any other resolutions including TV native to work very > well. (Usually I get black areas on the screen and/or right side runs over to > left) > > Any ideas group? > > Anyone else with a similar setup? > > Thanks, > -Jay > > -- > Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. > This message Copyright (c) 2001 Jay Thomas > Jay Thomas, jth...@ui... http://www.uiuc.edu/~jthomas2 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Marvel-linux mailing list > Mar...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/marvel-linux > __________________________________________________________ .' Ryan Veety <ry...@ry...> - http://www.ryanspc.com `. | PGP Key: http://www.ryanspc.com/pgp.txt | `----------------------------------------------------------' |
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From: Trevor B. <tb...@br...> - 2002-04-03 07:21:50
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Jay Thomas wrote: > a) I'm a little disapointed with the TV quality. Any recommendations for lavrec > settings? The best quality I was able to get, after a lot of testing, was with mp1e not with lavrec. I can send more details if this is something you might want to try. > c) I never quite got a really good modeline for NTSC out. I have 640x480 > working OK but never got any other resolutions including TV native to work very > well. (Usually I get black areas on the screen and/or right side runs over to > left) I did a lot of experimenting with that, and got good results with these fbset settings. It's a 720x576 screen, I use Xwindows through the matroxfb for output: # This one is 720x576, nice overscan fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -left 22 -right -4 -upper 50 -lower 20 -hslen 46 -vslen 4 -xres 720 -yres 576 -vxres 720 -vyres 576 -depth 24 -laced false -bcast true -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tb...@br... ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ "For lucky best wash, use Mr. Sparkle!" |
