[vlc] Re: Linux framebuffer problems

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Jan Ekholm wrote:

>On Fri, 21 May 2004, Gildas Bazin wrote:
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>>On Friday 21 May 2004 08:09, Jan Ekholm wrote:
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>>>Yup, although /dev/fb0 is the default. Nevertheless, I tried it too.
>>>
>>>However, it seems the framebuffer isn't the way to go today, it seems to
>>>be far too much work. Even getting vlc to actually show an image for
>>>anything non-trivial is extremely hard. Yes, I still can't get anything to
>>>actually show up when using DVB. :)
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Did you try with the recent DVB changes ? Part of the DVB input was
>>rewritten a couple of weeks ago and it is supposed to be more reliable now.
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>Yes, I think a small part of those changes were due to my whining... :)
>Tuning works great, but I can't seem to get anything to really show up.
>Playing local files (.avi, .mpg etc) works perfectly.
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Did you go to the menu View|Program ? There is a list of PID that are 
found in the stream. Be warned not all can be played, because currently 
VLC shows every PID in the stream. So not only Audio and Video, but also 
Teletext, network and others.

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Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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