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1 How to use a Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus and/or a Creative DXR3 by David Holm
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2 ==============================================================================
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4 Thanks goes out to Daniel Bell for the donation of a brand new 20GB IBM
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5 harddisk.
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7 1. Requirements
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9 * First of all you will need the DXR3/H+ drivers properly installed.
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10 Version 0.10.0 or later. You can find it at
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11 http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/
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13 * Run <mplayerdir>/configure and make sure that DXR3/H+ support = yes
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14 if you want to play files other than mpeg libmp1e should be = yes as well
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16 From here on compilation (of at least my code ;) should go without any
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17 problems.
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21 2. Usage
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23 -vo dxr3:<devicenum> For video output :<devicenum> is not needed unless
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24 you have more than one em8300 device in your computer
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25 -vo dxr3:noprebuf Turn of prebuffering. This is only needed if you are
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26 having sync issues with normal playback, this will
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27 make playback appear less smooth and will not use all
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28 available cpu power when playing non-mpeg content.
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29 Note: With prebuffering A-V: should be negative, if
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30 it's nonnegative your computer is too slow to
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31 properly play the video and you should disble
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32 prebuffering if you have sync issues.
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33 Without prebuffering this value should stay
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34 close to 0 at all times.
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35 Note2: Some very fast computers seems to have issues
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36 with prebuffering. Blame Sigma for that ;).
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37 You can safely use :noprebuf since your machines
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38 are fast enough to give you smooth playback anyway.
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39 -ao oss:<devicefile> For audio output
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40 -ac hwac3 For digital audio output instead of
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41 analog
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42 -vc mpegpes For mpeg playback
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43 -aop list=resample:fout=48000 If samplerate is below 44100Hz
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44 This does not work with digital audio output
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45 (-ac hwac3)
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46 <devicenum> Number of device to use for playback
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47 (if you have more than one card.).
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48 This can usually be left out (-vo dxr3).
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49 Mandrake 8.1 uses devfs by default. If
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50 you are running mandrake 8.1 please use
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51 -vo dxr3:0
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52 <devicefile> Normally /dev/em8300_ma or
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53 /dev/em8300_ma-<devicenum>
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54 (-ao dxr3:/dev/em8300_ma). If left out
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55 the default oss device will be used
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56 (normally soundcard).
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58 MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD and DVD Notes
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59 There are some important notes to take into account here for optimum playback.
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60 MPlayer currently does not autodetect that the dxr3 can playback mpegs. So for
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61 mpeg files, dvd's and vcd's you have to add -vc mpegpes to tell mplayer that
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62 you are using a hardware accelerator. Otherwise mplayer will decode the movie
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63 in software, which is much slower.
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64 Note that you cannot use -vc mpegpes with movies that aren't mpeg 1 or 2 or
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65 you will get an error message saying "Can't find codec for video format...".
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67 * If you run mplayer as root, or set userid root it will use your pc's internal
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68 realtime clockgenerator for syncing. (If your kernel supports it (It's
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69 located in character devices and called "Enhanced realtime clock support")).
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70 Some people report that this has improved playback (which it should), but
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71 others have had problems with it. You will have to experiment yourself with
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72 this to find your optimum setup.
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76 3. Contacting me
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78 You can contact me either by e-mailing me, <dholm@iname.com> or by using
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80 Feedback, bugreports and general suggestions are appreciated (preferably
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81 by e-mail).