[mythtv-users] Playing DVDs on PVR-350

[Stephen Longhurst]

> Is anyone doing any kludgy things to get the dvd output to go to the
> /dev/video16 device without the x11 driver?  I saw an mplayer patch
> referenced in April, but I can't find it now so it probably didn't work
> well?

The mplayer patch was for outputting video using the pvr-350 osd, like
the framebuffer driver.  This wasn't using the decoder.

There was a short thread on the ivtv-dev list a few days ago that
mentions playing various video formats on the pvr-350 tv output by
transcoding to vcd mpeg in realtime.  Feeding this to the decoder, the
video comes out in the TV.  See
http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/msg00964.html for the details.

Apparently, the pvr-350 card can accept raw YUV video and send it to
the TV output without the need for decoding, although this doesn't
work in the currently available ivtv drivers.

I know this doesn't help with playing DVD's as such, but it's still
interesting.

            Steve

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Stephen Longhurst
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