[gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

[Duncan]

Chris Brennan <xaero@××××××××××.net> posted
47B6D554.7070609@××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on  Sat, 16 Feb 2008
07:21:40 -0500:

> Wow ... quit a bit to absorb ... Forgive me if these next set of
> questions sound a bit dumb ...

Not dumb at all.  Rather, they demonstrate some serious thought and 
effort going into it.

> Will kaffeine and/or kmplayer know to use my /dev/video0 device? I tried
> getting (g)mplayer to do this and for the life of me, I could not figure
> out how to make it use that device :/

kmplayer can certainly use /dev/video, as it has TV input as one of its 
options, and that's what's in the example.  kaffeine I'm not sure.  It's 
more tilted toward playing dvd/vcd or traditional computer video (avi, 
etc).  But I know they both use the overlay if configured to do so.

> I've got a fair amount of experience in setting up X to Play video's (of
> various sizes, lengths and formats) and for getting 3D games such as
> Doom3/UT/Q3A (Btw, all these games work flawlessly for me, I get good
> hardware audio support and all the games are usually played on the
> highest settings. The exception being Doom3, I play one step down, too
> many objects moving at once on screen tends to bog down my AMD64/X2
> 4200+ (2.2GHz/ea). But my question is this, XVIDEO/XV/OpenGL are all
> prerequisites of these games. If they are working for the games, then
> shouldn't the overlay's be working for  my TV Card as well?

Well, if they are indeed actually using the overlay, yes.  As I mentioned 
for software video players, many can be configured to use other output 
methods, such as OpenGL, instead.  This was actually what I was 
suggesting in terms of software video players, get something that you 
know is using overlay, and if it works, then you know the overlay itself 
is working and can go from there to trying to get it visible to your TV 
capture device.  So if you have games already working that way, once 
you've verified they are, then you at least know the overlay is available 
and working; you just have to figure out how to get the capture device to 
see and use it (which I probably won't be much help with).

I'm not a big gamer (tho I do play one old DOS game, Master of Orion 
original, on DOSBOX using SDL, I guess it's my master in the sense of the 
sig as I seem addicted to it) and I don't have a hardware video input/
capture device, so I can't directly address it in terms of specific games 
or other than noting that kmplayer has /dev/video as a default.

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