Re: DVD recorder playback is 'tall and skinny' like me!

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:29, H}kan Hjort wrote:

> > > A temporary hack to view these (but the menu will look wrong instead) might be
> > > to use a oglerc with
> > > 
> -snip-

> > 
> > I've added two screenshots to the web page to show how the menu page and
> > a selection look. Just to clarify it a bit.
> > 
> I should have notice already when you talked about screenshots but it's
> wasn't clear to me that you weren't referring to Ogles built-in screen
> capture.

I hope I haven't misled you there :) I just meant I'd taken a 'snapshot'
of ogle as it was running (using Gnome) to better show what I was
getting. I installed the CVS version to get the 'i' (snap/screen shot
working) and indeed it does.

> Without Xv(ideo) support you don't get any scaling at all under Linux
> using Ogle.  
> 
> What chip/model graphics card do you have?  Your config file just has
> 'vesa' in it...  You'll see 'Xv' in the video window title when it's
> working.  Also the command xvinfo should print out lots of info when
> things are setup correctly.

It's a MB with onboard graphics. The board is Matsonics ms8188E and uses
the VIA KM400 chipset. I never got around to sorting the graphic driver
out since I had everything working quite well with the vesa. I'm using
Fedora Core 2 and I don't believe VIA have a driver for the KM400 in the
2.6.6 kernel format (or more ideally in a format that *I* can install
it!!). Using the 2.6.6 provided VIA driver does not do a great deal for
the system and in fact slows it down slightly so I've stuck with vesa
for now. I am intending to put a separate AGP card in when time permits
and I can do it easily and I can work out which card will work with FC2.
:)

I appreciate that Totem does it differently but the DVD's from the DVD
recorder are displayed correctly with Totem as I mentioned before, but
of course it doesn't scroll the menu page as Ogle does and the video
does not appear to be of such quality as Ogles' . Which is why I really
want to get it working.

Just to reiterate, that commercial DVD's are fine in Ogle so I suppose
it's something to do with the way Philips records the DVD. In the next
day or so I'm going to record some material from my video camera to see
how that plays out. The DVD material I'm having problems with was all
taken via a cable feed so I want to eliminate that as a cause of the
'skinny' pics.


-- 
Dave