Re: Random questions about Linux + Xbox

Hi.

Some words about freevo.
Freevo uses mplayer and mplayer can configured to use xv.
Since we have working xv, freevo should work perfekt on
the Xbox.
For example:
DVD watching 50-60% CPU usage
DIVX watching 30-35% CPU usage

cu

ED. 

Am Sonntag, 24. November 2002 11:54 schrieb Angel:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:12:19 +0000
>
> Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:01, Angel wrote:
> > > First the question of how picky it is with cdr media.  I have heard
> > > that the "Christmas bundle xbox with jet set radio and sega gt" reads
> > > cheap cdrs very well.  I hope this is the case. =).  Second the debian
> > > install guide
> >
> > That version of the box is being called v1.1, it is a slightly different
> > motherboard and BIOS to the original v1.0.  I have had no luck at all
> > with CDR or CDRW on any version of the box, probably something to do with
> > my CDRW drive.
>
> Have others had better luck with with their cdrs?  Milosch's burned copies
> of mandrakes worked whiles yours did not?  What are the models of your
> cdrw's?  Perhaps pressed cds will be offered/sold for initial install?  How
> many different kinds of dvd-roms are there running about in the two
> versions of the xbox?  Freevo seems to be a very cool project; I have it
> running on my desktop in windowed mode.  Very nice to look at, select music
> and videos and they just recently added support for mame.
>
> 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.
>
> > > says that it needs 10+ gigs to install?  Is that the same for all the
> > > premade isos available?  Lastly I was wondering  how good output looks
> > > to
> >
> > I have not used Ed's Debian distro (simply because I can't burn the CDs!)
> > although many people have had a good experience with it.  On the Mandrake
> > 9 distro (for which Milosch sent me CDs), it will happily install in an
> > 8GB drive, by annexing the top 3G or so.  Note that the FATX filesystem
> > used by the native box does not understand nor honour the partition
> > table, if you fill the native drive up with >5G of stuff it will start
> > crapping on your Linux install.  I solve this problem by not using the
> > box in native mode :-)
> >
> > > the tv.  Im planning on setting one up in my living room running freevo
> > > to play captured music videos and captured tv shows across a nfs mount
> > > to my server box.  Does the tv-out introduce any flicker when you are
> > > watching videos on it?
> >
> > No, the box issues video at 50Hz (PAL) or 60Hz (NTSC) exactly like
> > broadcast television does.  There is nothing to flicker.  TVs have longer
> > decay-time phosphor than monitors to try to mask the low refresh rate. 
> > The Conextant video encoder chip even does a good job of supressing
> > flicker on text-type displays where hugely different intensity levels can
> > be present on adjacent video rows that are on the opposite interlace.
> >
> > Be aware that just recently Oliver managed to get accellerated X up, this
> > is necessary for fullscreen playback on mplayer or whatever freevo is
> > using for video rendering.  In order to use that right now you need an
> > updated XBE loader and edit a few things.  Hopefully in the next few
> > weeks there might be an update to the distros to include this stuff?
> >
> > Freevo is also really interesting, please let us know your experiences
> > with it on the box, what setup it needs, etc.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
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