[mythtv] MythTV does not appear to work with FB setups

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:38:09 -0400


On Saturday 31 August 2002 08:18 am, Richard Jones wrote:
> In terms of 2) I'm considering adding DirectFB support to mythtv
> (DirectFB has some tv-out stuff for the g400 (my card) that none of the
> other g400 tv-out solutions have right now). DirectFB support would
> allow mythtv to work with any card support by a framebuffer device
> (including vesafb). I've just started thinking about this and I'm not
> sure it will match in well with mythtv, but if it does don't expect
> anything in the very near future on this.

That might be interesting -- doesn't the QT/Embedded stuff support DirectFB?  
Might not be too difficult to get the entire UI working.  Haven't looked at 
QT/E at all, except to ponder borrowing a Zaurus to write a little 2 way 
'remote control' app for everything..

Additionally, it wouldn't be all that hard to add in other video output 
modes..  main thing's going to be the scaling, unless the resolution can be 
changed to match the video size.

Isaac