Re: Random questions about Linux + Xbox

On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:54, Angel wrote:

> On the fullscreen issue I belive the -zoom option to mplayer (which freevo
> does use) will scale the video without hardware accel.  That is if the cpu
> is fast enough.  I have no idea about wether the xbox is fast "enough" for
> this, but I hope. And thanks for the explaination on tv-out it seems
> everything I have ever read about the subject always made it seem as if it
> was nearly impossible to get decent flicker free output to a tv.

For whatever reason, (someone suggested it was the colourspace conversion 
which is having to be done in software) without the hardware accelleration 
the Xbox is not quite fast enough to use the zoom option without dropping 
frames.  With Oliver's accellerated driver (allowing -vo xv) people who are 
using it report its perfect.  And with good source material, the quality on a 
TV is really very good.

>What would be preferred to buy, 1.0 or 1.1?

With v1.1 you can only currently use the Xecuter hacked native BIOS.  People 
have reported that Xbox Linux will not start with that BIOS, I have not got 
around to test this myself yet.  So right this second its still preferred to 
get a v1.0 box from before August manufacturing date.  But my guess is soon 
enough we'll be okay with v1.1 boxes too.

-Andy


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