[myth-ie] Mythdora III: The Good Friday Resurrection

[Brendan Kehoe]

Brendan Kehoe wrote:
>> I'm using a Radeon card (ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE]). 
>> With the 1360x768 screen size working very crisp and clearly when I use
>> that card and the VGA input on the TV, I'm really enticed into trying to
>> stick with that and don't worry about tv-out, but video display thru
>> that is choppy.  My theory is that the AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.833 GHz CPU
>> isn't up to it.  But perhaps I'm making the wrong guess?  I realize
>> that's not the 1GHz-or-less speed I'd been thinking.
>>     
> Hmm, don't remember if I looked to see if XVideo/xv support could be
> enabled for that card now, or if it was still too proprietary for that
> to work...
>   

On my 3-year working version, I decided to play a little before I force
myself to remember that I have work I have to do today.

    * edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and made it use the Monitor definition
      that's been working with the Hauppauge card and had a bunch of
      Modelines stuck into it when I started way back making it use the
      1360x768 size; also, made it use the Device that uses the radeon
      driver; the Monitor def
    * In the mythfrontend Screen settings, de-selected "Use GUI size for
      TV playback"; I still need to correct the GUI size, which is
      currently set to 670x550 (long story)
    * In the mythdfrontend TV Settings -> Playback, set the Preferred
      MPEG2 Decoder to "Standard XvMC", and de-selected "Use the
      PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder"


It works!  The screen is crisp and clear, and while the mythfrontend is
displaying in a small-ish box (cuz of the old GUI settings), it looks
correct.  Watching TV is right, and playing recordings works.  Playing
AVI and MPEG files also works properly, even to the extent that they to
4:3 or 16:9 properly.

No sound, but I know that's because I'm set up to get sound out of the
Hauppauge still.

Wow!  Thanks, Damian, for pointing out XvMC.

Tonight (or if I finish the work I have to do, earlier, now there's a
motivator) I'll put back the new disks and the Mythdora install I've
been using, and see if the above also works there.  Then I'll run away
from Fedora Core 6 in Mythdora and give my Mythbuntu install another shot.

B