Mailing List Archive: My Setup and a few notes

My current setup:
P4-2400 Sager Laptop.
ATI Radeon 7500 M7
AverVideo Tuner/Svideo in/out

I am using 640x400 with mpeg4 for now when watching live video.
Other settings higher seem to glitch after a few minutes even though
the cpu load never exceeds 80%. At 640x400 it seems to run fine (at least
after a few hours its still fine).

I have made a few changes, nothing big.
1) I run with a virtual desktop since I simply switch from 1280x1024 to
800x600 when I want to use MythTV. So I changed the mythtv to follow the
size set in the settings instead of "fullscreen" which expands to the full
1280x1024 even if the screen size is 800x600.
2) To get the TV out to work I integrated in the atitvout calls.
3) I run xmame in DGA modes, so I hooked the atitvout calls into the
mythgame system to kick tv out in after xmame starts and again after it
exits. Not a great solution, but I will have to learn how to better
config the laptop TV out modes.
4) hooked in xine for borderless 800x600 dvd playback
5) hooked in konqueror for 800x600 browsing mode of videos
6) added icons for everything

I'll try to control my digital cable box tomorrow.

A) how come this fast machine has problems "sometimes" during "live"
watching? it never seems to get close to running 100% loaded.
B) is there a way or a planned way to export the videos so they can
be played by something else?
C) home come pressing m to bring up the epg in tv mode doesn't work? is
the video on top of the epg somehow?
D) sometimes the overlay of show information doesn't go way; is this
a known bug? is there a way to force it off? I have to hit ESC and then
come back in. Changing channels causes new text to be displayed, but it
still doesn't ever disappear.

Great program! Thanks!
Mike

On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:53 am, Michael Kedl wrote:
> I have made a few changes, nothing big.
> 1) I run with a virtual desktop since I simply switch from 1280x1024 to
> 800x600 when I want to use MythTV. So I changed the mythtv to follow the
> size set in the settings instead of "fullscreen" which expands to the full
> 1280x1024 even if the screen size is 800x600.
> 2) To get the TV out to work I integrated in the atitvout calls.
> 3) I run xmame in DGA modes, so I hooked the atitvout calls into the
> mythgame system to kick tv out in after xmame starts and again after it
> exits. Not a great solution, but I will have to learn how to better
> config the laptop TV out modes.
> 4) hooked in xine for borderless 800x600 dvd playback
> 5) hooked in konqueror for 800x600 browsing mode of videos
> 6) added icons for everything

Icons? =) I'm always looking for more artwork for things..

> I'll try to control my digital cable box tomorrow.
>
> A) how come this fast machine has problems "sometimes" during "live"
> watching? it never seems to get close to running 100% loaded.

I'm thinking the most likely thing is probably the harddrive speed. My
laptop, at least, gets rather bad transfer rates outta the harddrive.

> B) is there a way or a planned way to export the videos so they can
> be played by something else?

Someone's working on export/burn to VCD functionality, so once that's done,
exporting to other formats should work just as well.

> C) home come pressing m to bring up the epg in tv mode doesn't work? is
> the video on top of the epg somehow?

Which window manager are you using? Whatever the default Gnome WM
is nowadays seems to have problems with this in particular..

> D) sometimes the overlay of show information doesn't go way; is this
> a known bug? is there a way to force it off? I have to hit ESC and then
> come back in. Changing channels causes new text to be displayed, but it
> still doesn't ever disappear.

I've never seen this, and I don't think it's been reported before.. I'm
assuming you're using 0.7?

Isaac