Nick, On Sunday, 16 January 2005, Nick Morrott wrote: [...] > I understand there is no xv support for the 350, hence the use of X11 > output. In both cases the video is choppy and not at all smooth. There is > also tearing during any sort of panning. With mplayer, there is also a/v > sync loss as soon as the video starts. I haven't tried DVD playback at all > at this stage. Is this something that currently is unavoidable? > > Do any PVR-350 users have any suggestions to help improve this problem? My > system is using a Celeron-D 2.4Ghz and 512MB of RAM in a Pundit-R system > so should have enough grunt, and because DVB and captured MPEG2 playback > is so good I'd hoped regular video playback wouldn't be too bad. Are there > any glaring omissions from the player startup commands above that would > improve things? > > I'm really hoping now that ATI finally live up to their promises and > release their new driver Monday (17th) because I guess this would solve > many problems on my Pundit-R (whether the LiveTV/playback on a TV is as > good as the PVR-350 is another matter) - the TV-Out signal is high quality > on the Pundit-R (both RGB and SVid) in my short experience but drivers are > poor to say the least and as yet don't support Xorg >6.7.0. Seems Monday > is D-Day for ATI amongst Linux users ...
I have tried several ways to get DVD playback and playing of divx files running smooth on the PVR-350 TV-OUT (Pundit-R, Pentium 2.53, 512M), but haven't succeeded. Strange thing is that the CPU utilisation running xine is about 40-50% which would mean that there is room in CPU power. I was wondering if lowering the DefaultDepth (now) 24 and/or DefaultFbbpp (now) 32 in the X config would make things better, but the ivtvdev (0.8) driver fails to load when these numbers are changed. Way forward for me (unfortunately) is also to try the TV-OUT port of the ATI Radeon 9100 IGP and hope that Mythtv playback is as good is it currently is on the PVR-350 TV-OUT. -- Niels
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