[Openchrome-users] CX700M2 and DVI

[John Robinson]

On 08/05/2008 09:39, Martin Kihlgren wrote:
[...]
> 3) openchrome claims to work, apart from mpeg2, mpeg4 and some other
> stuff. And as far as I understand also apart from DVI.
> 
> 3.1) openchrome seems like a serious and well maintained project, so
> perhaps these features are on their way or perhaps (though I deem it
> unlikely) I will be able to understand the openchrome code well enough
> to be able to assist in building these missing features.

I was under the impression mpeg2 XvMC support for CX700 was coming Real 
Soon Now; I hope I've got this right, but if I'm wrong I'm sure I'll be 
corrected :-)

And mpeg4 support is probably never going to happen, because the 
overhead of feeding the unit means you can do it faster in CPU, and 
those few chips that have it only help with H.263, while most 
broadcasters are using H.264 anyway.

> 4) I have no clue how to make mplayer, xine or vlc (or any other media
> player) work with the mpeg2 and mpeg4 decoders, even if I get them to
> work.

xine and mythtv will pretty much Just Work out of the box with XvMC.

I'd say try openchrome trunk and if that doesn't work for you, try the 
randr branch which may be better on CX700.

Cheers,

John.