[mythtv] Sucess! mythtv no X-Window

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:02, Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:25, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Friday 28 November 2003 16:44, Steve wrote:
> > > The subject should say it all!
> > > 
> > > I've written a video output for mythtv using directfb, modified
> > > settings.pro and Makefile in libmythtv so it doesn't try to compile
> > > against X, and compiled with qt-embedded. Everything's running on the
> > > framebuffer.
> > 
> > Just curious, what kind of performance/CPU usage are you getting for 
playback?  
> > Are you able to use any kind of hardware-accelerated scaling, since (I 
> > presume) you can't use Xv without X (or am I wrong in that?)
> > 
> 
> My machine doesn't have an ssh daemon running currently, and since my
> output code doesn't have keyboard support yet, I'm not quite sure.
> 
> There are no audio stuttering or video glitch problems at all - unlike
> the X stuff, so I assume it's using less resources.
> 
> I will be getting an ssh daemon running tonight or tomorrow, I'll let
> you know what the CPU usage, etc is then.
> 
> As far as I know, DirectFB supports hardware scaling and color space
> conversion on the CLE266, even though it's not using Xv.

So, is this framebuffer support only for hardware decoders like the CLE266 or 
PVR-350?  Or will it work for a generic framebuffer device, like the 
framebuffer console or VESA framebuffer device?

-JAC