Re: [vdr] vdr-sxfe open hug OSD

2011-02-01 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2011-02-01 19:48 +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > And the reason why I hadn't tried those: > > vdr-sxfe: option '--hud' doesn't allow an argument > vdr-sxfe: unrecognized option '--opengl' Then you have an old version of Xineliboutput. What does vdr-sxfe -h say about the options? For example, I

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2011-01-22 08:16 +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:42:40PM +, Stuart Morris wrote: > > conversion and then draw the first field to the frame buffer. At the next > > vertical sync the shader would convert the second field and draw that to > > the frame buffer. With VDPA

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Replying to myself... ke, 2011-01-19 kello 12:48 +0200, Niko Mikkilä kirjoitti: > ke, 2011-01-19 kello 10:18 +, Stuart Morris kirjoitti: > > My experience with an nVidia GT220 has been less than perfect. It can > > perform temporal+spatial+inverse_telecine on HD video fast eno

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Niko Mikkilä
ke, 2011-01-19 kello 10:18 +, Stuart Morris kirjoitti: > My experience with an nVidia GT220 has been less than perfect. It can > perform temporal+spatial+inverse_telecine on HD video fast enough, but > my PC gets hot and it truly sucks at 2:2 pulldown detection. The > result of this is when vie

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-18 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2011-01-18 14:49 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > I still can't translate that explanation into simple mechanics. Is > temporal like weave and spatial like bob or the other way round? Or > something a little more sophisticated, interpolating parts of the > picture belonging to the "wrong" field fro

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-18 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2011-01-15 22:36 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > I wonder whether it might be possible to use a more eonomical card which > is only powerful enough to decode 1080i without deinterlacing it and > take advantage of the abundant CPU power most people have nowadays to > perform software deinterlacing

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-03 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2011-01-02 at 18:56 -0800, VDR User wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Adrian C. wrote: > > Also with VDPAU, but more importantly in the absence of it would any of > > these CPU be up to the task of processing: Athlon2 X3 450 3.2GHz and > > Pentium E6500 or E6700 3.0GHz. Those CPUs are f

Re: [vdr] VGA2SCART and Broadcom Crystal HD

2010-12-01 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2010-11-29 at 18:58 +0100, Damien Bally wrote: > Hello > > I plan to buy an D945GSEJT to build my new VDR box and I would give a > try to the VGA2SCART (FRC) output. My TV-set is still a good old CRT. > > 1) Is the quality comparable to a dxr3 card which I am satisfied with ? If you get FRC

Re: [vdr] xine-lib and vaapi support

2010-11-08 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On 2010-11-08 at 12:54 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > On 6 November 2010 14:14, Udo Richter wrote: > > AMD also supports vaapi, but progress is very slow, and its still very > > buggy. Also, its limited to closed source drivers. > > Sounds similar to what nvidia went through. AMD's progress h

Re: [vdr] Compressing VDR recordings without losing quality.

2010-10-30 Thread Niko Mikkilä
ate, but this is not always desirable. Scripts I wrote a bash script for downloading and installing AviSynth plus some of the essential filters on Linux. I could upload it somewhere if people are interested? There's also a simple command-line based template system that makes using AviSyn

Re: [vdr] Converting all recordings to TS?

2010-08-25 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Wed, 2010-08-25 at 19:30 +0200, C.Scheeder wrote: > I guess ProjectX will do the trick, it is scriptable. > At least vdrconvert uses it this way to generate DVD-streams > from VDR-recordings. > the only downside is, it needs an X-server to run. > (a real one or a fake one. vdrconvert uses a fake se

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-22 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Sun, 2010-08-22 at 11:51 +0200, marti...@embl.de wrote: > You are absolutely right, the P4 has indeed 2.4GHz (and 512MB of RAM) > Which makes it the more surprising that on SD channels I am getting cpu > utilization in the region of 80% to 95% > It should be a lot less? What kind of deinterlacing

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.15 dvb-t channel mismatch

2010-08-22 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Hi, Sat, 2010-08-21 at 22:06 +0200, Stefan Lucke wrote: > reststarting my vdr activities I went into trouble with dvb-t > channels.conf for Berlin. Just took the channels from: > http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Channels.conf_DVBT-De-Berlin-Brandenburg > > There is the following entry for AR

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-20 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:08 +0200, jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: > > There is no graphics card, BD/DVD player or other standalone device that > outputs > > those rates exactly. I don't know how much they deviate, but I'd guess > it's usually > > something like 0.01 % (50.005 Hz instead of 5

Re: [vdr] nvidia-vdr closed driver or open source?

2010-08-20 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:30 +0300, Mikko Tuumanen wrote: > I've just tried to use a tnt2 card with the nvidia legacy drivers > because a couple of capacitors blew up on my newer card. It didn't work, > undefined symbol. Same thing with ati cards. The Nvidia legacy drivers are kept up to date with ke

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-19 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Thu, 2010-08-19 at 20:54 +0400, Goga777 wrote: > > Computer hardware usually cannot provide 50.000Hz, 59.940Hz or 23.976Hz > > outputs to your TV/Monitor. This will cause some judder on display output > > as MPEG/AVC input-stream is not synchronized to output framerate. > > do you mean that all nv

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-19 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Hi, ke, 2010-08-18 kello 10:13 +0200, jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com kirjoitti: > I also would like to remind the framerate issues. Naturally you decide what > is enough precision and quality for you. > > Computer hardware usually cannot provide 50.000Hz, 59.940Hz or 23.976Hz > outputs to your T

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-17 Thread Niko Mikkilä
On Tue, 2010-08-17 kello 19:36 +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:39 +0300, Niko Mikkilä wrote: > > IMO the only reason to go for a separate card over ION would be higher > > quality 1080i deinterlacing. You'll need GT 220 for that since GeForce > > 2

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-17 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Hi Paul, On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:13 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > is there really no recommendation for a board not using Nvidia graphics > components? It would really be great to not depend on proprietary > drivers. Hardware decoding through VA-API is working on some Intel chipsets and CPUs, but

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

2010-08-17 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Hi, On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:05 +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: > Asus Bravo 220 silent seems to be a passive model. Do you know if these > non-motherboard integrated cards support 7.1ch PCM audio over HDMI? Yes, as VDR User said, the latest generation VP4/VDPAU feature set C cards (GeForce 210, GT