Hardware
The hardware that the software on this site has been tested on is the following
The production machine has an AMD64 processor and runs on a pure 64bit version of Linux. Linux was
build using Cross Linux From Scratch, the host system was
Gentoo. During the installation of Linux From Scratch and Freevo 1.5.4 quite a few problems were encountered however most
of these were easily resolved.
The test machine has an Intel PIII 733 MHz processor and runs on a 32bit version of Linux. Linux
was built using Linux From Scratch. The purpose of the
test machine is to test new version of vbi2srt and Freevo 2.
There are still some outstanding problems, which include losing sound from recording after a number
of days continuous running and the WLAN performance is not as good as expected. The
loss of audio is a real pain and it is most likely caused by a fault in the IVTV driver.
FREEVO has incorrect V4L structure sizes when running on an AMD64 bit processor. See Freevo patches
The Matrox frame buffer could not handle TV out when the frame buffer was initialised at
1024x768.
The matroxset utility does not correctly configure the frame buffer to use a second monitor. This
may be fixed with a firmware upgrade of the G400 graphics adapter but has not been tested.
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| Matrox G400 TV-out |
640x480-32@60 |
640x480-16@60 |
Above left is a photo of TV-out from a Matrox G400 DH Max and MPlayer. This is corrected by
changing the primary frame buffer to a resolution 1600x1200, even if the monitor on the primary head does not
support 1600x1200. There is a patch available that fixed this problem
Above centre and right are two photos showing /dev/fb1 been redirected to second monitor with
matroxset -f /dev/fb1 -m 2 and different colour depths. More details can be found on www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Matrox_G400_Dual_Head
a wiki page about the Matrox frame buffer.
