[MPlayer-users] Success Report: Dedicated DivX-Player w/TV-Out

[Roberto De Leo]

Hi Martin,
I started developing two similar projects [one without X and one with X]
two months ago, if you are interested you can get more info from
    http://movix.sf.net/

The one with X is called MoviX2.
It uses the full X 4.2.0 libraries and supports all audio cards supported
by the OSS and (in principle) all video cards supported by XFree86,
and it has been reported working [more or less] fine with Matrox, Ati
and NVidia cards.
It boots from CD using SysLinux, loads the whole system in RAM,
contains a mplayer compiled with support for most of the vo drivers
[xmga,xv,x11,dga,gl,gl2,sdl,xvidix,fbdev,vesa,aa] and runs on machines
with >= 96MB RAM, but Ati TV-out is still pretty unstable [did not manage
to make gatos drivers working].

It would be very nice if you'd want to help me setting up the TV-out
for Ati cards, but in any case you may find MoviX2 useful to expand
your own project.

Hope it helps,
 Roberto

Martin Emrich wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi!
>
>I just got to say this because I'm really happy now *g*
>
>I finally got my DivX-Player-PC working:
>
>- P2/400, 128MB RAM
>
>- Diskless Boot via Etherboot,DHCP,NFS-Root, running Debian Woody
>
>- ATI All-In-Wonder Pro (4 MB PCI)
>
>- VGA to RGB Adapter (see e.g.
>http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~pfeffer/tvout/ 
>  for the circuit / modelines) - Definitely the finest possible picture
>because
>  no in-between converting to composite/s-video, but requires a RGB
>capable
>  TV set
>
>- minimal XFree86 4.1.0 (atyfb.o doesn't like interlaced)
>
>- uses mplayer -vo x11 (-vo vidix seem not to work with interlaced
>modes,
>  I got only the upper half of the video, the lower half was magenta),
>but
>  it's fast enough to play DivX/MPEG4 Videos
>
>- Logitech Cordless Keyboard (definitely the biggest remote ever seen
>*fg*)
>
>TODO: - upgrade to XFree86 4.2.1 for xv support
>      - nice pick-a-video GUI
>
>As soon as it's running stable & reliable, I might put the stuff on a
>website.
>
>bye
>
>Martin
>
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