[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [Dxr3-devel] Best, supported, TV-out chip as generic framebuffer?

[Marcel B]

Rick Haines wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:20:24PM -0800, Neologism wrote:
> > On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 08:10, David Holm wrote:
> > > Check dxr3.sourceforge.net to see what cards are supported.
> >
> > Okay, I just scoured dxr3.sourceforge.net and couldn't find any
> > information about which cards will or will not work with the generic
> > framebuffer support in your MPlayer patch (which, I understand, is
> > fairly recent functionality for the dxr3 project).  From this I assume
> > that all of the cards being used with the dxr3 project will support the
> > patch.
>
> There is no known way to access the buffers on the dxr3 hardware.  The
> stuff that looks like a generic framebuffer just encodes the video into
> a loosly compressed mpeg stream and sends it to the card.
>
> Maybe if we knew the machine code that the microcode uses..
>
> > Reading your own documentation I see that the dxr3 uses the bt865 chip
> > instead of the adv717* for the TV-out.  Does anyone have a sense of
> > which is the higher quality?  How about the VideoLogic board, anyone
> > know what it uses?  My whole reason for wanting to purchase one of these
> > cards is to get the highest Linux-supported TV-out quality I can.  The
> > NetStream2000 has component outs (ooooooo!) in addition to S-Video.  Any
> > sense of whether we can utilize undocumented generic framebuffer support
> > on it as well?
>
> I believe the adv7175a is considered the highest quality.  Component
> output can be activated on this chip (although the driver doesn't do
> this yet) but you need a special cable to use it.

I use an out-of-the-box dxr3 which comes with a short 3" cable that I hook
the RCA video to, and it works fine.
I also have a Y-adapter that turns stereo out into the red/white audio ones,
but that doesn't work yet, cause my audio's messed up...


> I don't know which
> boards use which tv encoder chips.  (As a side note, it looks like the
> em8400 has an integrated tv encoder).  I don't know if I'd use an mpeg
> decoder for generic tv output, but if it works..
>
> > Thanks for your thoughts, I'm eager to purchase some hardware and get
> > into the game, but I don't want to buy the wrong one.
> >
> > Neologism
> >
> >
> >
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