Re: Framebuffer AVI player?

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 16:44, Stan Brown wrote:
> > On Sat Nov 24 18:45:28 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >You are trying to play 24-bit video on an 8-bit display.  Nearly nothing
> > >works with 8-bit color because such displays are usually palettes,
> > >whereas 16- and 24-bit are continuous color spectra.
> > >
> > >Change your frame buffer device to 16- or 24-bit color.  You can use the
> > >fbset program or change it at boot time.  See the documentation for
> > >fbset for more information.
> > >
> > K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using:
> > 
> > mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play]
> > 
> > Anid it displayed, centered on the framebufer display. However it was
> > pretty small (about 3" x 4"),
> 
> The framebuffer device does not expose an interface to the hardware
> video scaler, and software video scaling is pretty slow.  Mplayer (which
> I have never used) may not be capable of software scaline.
> 
> > I run fbtv as "fbtv -mtv" and it pretty much fills the entire screen, which
> > is what I want to replicate, while playing recoded video.
> 
> TV tuners usually include their own scaling hardware, and they draw
> directly into the video output.  Hence the difference.  The best
> solution would be to define a video mode at the same size as the AVI
> files you are playing.  I have special modes I use for playing DVDs, for
> example, to match the resolution and frame rate of most films.
> 
> -jwb

  ⌡Can you please post the modes for DVDs et cetera?

 Thank you,

 Alex.