HD Recording playback problem

QuimaxW · 2007-01-17 18:38:52

I got two new pchdtv PC-5500 tuner cards. That's the fun part...now the bad part(s).

Recording is fine, playback is not. On my system with the NVidia 5200 card, the playback of the 1080 is perfect! However, when I play back on either of my i915 systems (and the P3-733 w/ 16MB video card) I can hear the audio, but I just get a blue screen the size of what should be the video.

Specs of the systems:
Sony Vaio Notebook, i915 chipset, Pentium M 1.73 w/ 512MB Arch 0.8
Aopen MiniPC, i915 chipset Pentium M 1.73 w/ 1024MB Suse 10.1

Both do the same thing, I'm certain it's something in the video setup for the XOrg, but I can't seem to find it.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    #Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "i810"
#    Load "ddc"
    Load "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
#    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
#    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        Option     "DRI"  "true"                  # [<bool>]
      #Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
          #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"               # [<bool>]
    #Option "RenderAccl" "true"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "i810"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    #Option "Composite" "Enable"
    #Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

(Yes, I've got the AIGLX stuff, it's commented out as Beryl hasn't been good recently for me.)

QuimaxW · 2007-01-19 03:00:22

SOLVED!

After about a week of googling, I found the right setting.

I added the following line to xorg.conf device section

Option "LinearAlloc" "8160"

It's the result of the computation of 1920*1088*2 for one frame, multiplied by 2 for the double buffering which then equals 8160.

Who knows, perhaps this will also solve my beryl problems as well. I'll have to try it sometime.

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#1 2007-01-17 18:38:52

HD Recording playback problem

#2 2007-01-19 03:00:22

Re: HD Recording playback problem

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