Displaying Video on an EPIA ME6000 on alternate TV-Out
(Part of the BuildingFreevo set.)
Using a PVR-350 on an EPIA ME-6000 board works great for hardware-accelerated MPEG1/2 playback, but cannot keep up with any type of software decoding (for AVI/XviD playback).
Solution: use the VIA onboard CLE266 graphics chip and mplayer's "xv" support, which is fast enough, use its S-Video out, and run an X server on this output only when it is required.
This allows the PVR-350 tv-out to be the main interface in MythTV, and then the user can switch to the other tv-out when they watch video files in MythVideo.
/usr/local/bin/viamplayer (alternative mplayer script which displays on the other tv-out):
#!/bin/sh
set -x
file="$*"
# ensure there isn't one running, just to be sure
sudo /usr/local/etc/kill_video_xserver
rm /tmpfs/:1.pid
# display a nice message on the PVR-350 tv out
echo '
wm title . "Switch Video Input"
label .lbl -text "Video file is now playing on the other video input."
pack .lbl -side top -padx 10 -pady 10
' > /tmpfs/busy.scr ; wish -f /tmpfs/busy.scr &
wishpid=$!
sudo /usr/local/etc/start_video_xserver &
sleep 1
while [ ! -f /tmpfs/:1.pid ] ; do
sleep 1
done
pid=`cat /tmpfs/:1.pid`
xauth merge /tmpfs/:1.auth
mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -framedrop \
-ao oss:/dev/dsp \
-vo xv -display :1 "$file"
status=$!
sudo /usr/local/etc/kill_video_xserver
kill $wishpid
exit $status
/usr/local/etc/start_video_xserver:
#!/bin/sh
xinit /usr/local/etc/start_video_clients -- :1 \
-br -noreset -nolisten tcp -v \
-xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.via
/usr/local/etc/start_video_clients:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
echo $$ > /tmpfs/:1.pid
tmpf=/tmpfs/:1.auth
xauth extract - :1 > $tmpf
chmod 644 $tmpf /tmpfs/:1.pid
chown mythtv /tmpfs/:1.pid /tmpfs/:1.auth
xset s off
# wait for the X server to be killed before we exit
while true ; do
sleep 60
if xdpyinfo ; then
echo "X is still running, not quitting client script"
else
echo "X no longer running, done"
exit
fi
done
/usr/local/etc/kill_video_xserver:
#!/bin/sh pkill -f " :1 "
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.via:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "TV Screen"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
#Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor
# Load "GLcore"
#Load "v4l"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
# Load "glx"
#Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
HorizSync 30-50
VertRefresh 60
# http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=KnoppMythR5PreviewInstall
# HorizSync 30-68
# VertRefresh 50-120
Mode "720x480"
# D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
DotClock 34.564
HTimings 720 752 840 928
VTimings 480 484 488 504
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "VIA CLE266 Framebuffer"
Driver "via"
VendorName "Via"
BoardName "cle266"
VideoRam 32768
Option "ActiveDevice" "CRT,TV"
Option "TVType" "NTSC"
Option "TVOutput" "S-Video"
Option "PciRetry" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "TV Screen"
Device "VIA CLE266 Framebuffer"
Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
DefaultFbbpp 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
FbBpp 32
Modes "720x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection