Blackrhino USB install with Kernelloader

[dlanor]

@barf


"setcrtmode pal0" sets the text only mode (console) of PS2-Linux to PAL nointerlace, which should do what you want.

I think you may have misunderstood this.

576p is a video mode that can display 576 scanlines per frame.
Total resolution is thus 576 pixels in height, at least in theory.
(There is always an undisplayed margin.)

PAL interlaced is a resolution that can display appx 512 lines but only by showing 256 per frame period, with alternate frames shifted half a line height so as to 'fill in the blanks' of the previous one. Total resolution is thus 512, but flickering at 25Hz in all regions where alternate frames have contrasting pixels. (50Hz elsewhere)

PAL non-interlaced has exactly the same line timing and almost the same frame timing as interlaced PAL, except for the halfline shift between frames which is skipped. So this mode 'paints over' exactly the same pixel positions in every frame. Total resolution is thus 256, without interlace flicker. (Though still with 50Hz flutter.)

Btw: The total number of raster lines per frame for PAL is 312.5 for interlace and either 312 or 313 for non-interlace. So traditional TV wastes a lot of raster lines which never are visible. Similar relations are true for NTSC, with its 262.5 vs 262/263 raster lines per frame of which only 224 are visible giving resolutions that are 448 or 224 pixels high for interlace and non-interlace respectively.

Best regards: dlanor

[deba5er]

@dlanor and barf,

Sorry, I missed on this one. The only modes supported for DTV on PS2-Linux are 480p,720p,1080i.

[peterdcrees]

@deba5er

Thanks for compiling joymouse and the install instructions. Works great!

I now have the joystick working as a mouse with my NFS install. Sound modules loaded and the systems seems stable playing radio in xmms while browsing in dillo.

Does your mplayer build support realaudio streams over rtsp:// ? (BBC radio)

[deba5er]

@peterdcrees

It did not play - rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra
It did play this clip though - rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/r3g2ident.rm

What URL are you trying to listen to?

[kevstah2004]

RealAudio files are compressed using several different audio codecs. Each codec is identified by a four character code. Below is a list of the codecs and the version in which each was introduced:

* lpcJ: IS-54 VSELP (RealAudio 1)
* 28_8: G.728 LD-CELP (RealAudio 2)
* dnet: Dolby AC3 (RealAudio 3)
* sipr: Sipro Lab Telecom ACELP-NET (RealAudio 4/5)
* cook: G2/Cook Codec (RealAudio 6)
* atrc: Sony ATRAC3 (RealAudio 8)
* raac: MPEG-4 LC-AAC (RealAudio 9)
* racp: MPEG-4 HE-AAC (RealAudio 10)
* ralf: RealAudio Lossless Format (RealAudio 10)

RealVideo files are compressed using several different video codecs. Each codec is identified by a four character code. Below is a list of the codecs and the version in which each was introduced:

* rv10, rv13: RealVideo 1.0, based on h.263 (included with RealPlayer 5)
* rv20: RealVideo G2 and RealVideo G2+SVT, also based on h.263 (included with RealPlayer 6)
* rv30: RealVideo 8, suspected to based largely on either H.263 or an early draft of H.264 (included with RealPlayer 8)
* rv40: RealVideo 9, suspected to be based on H.264 (included with RealPlayer 9)
* rv40: RealVideo 10, aka RV9 EHQ (included with RealPlayer 10). It is an encoder side improvement and therefore is fully backwards compatible with older players which has the RV9 decoder. As a result it uses the same FourCC.

While the newest version of RealPlayer should be able to play any RealVideo file. FFmpeg and its based programs also support all RealVideo codecs.

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[deba5er]

@kevstah2004 and peterdcrees - Working BBC Radio on ps2-linux

[Thanks. I'm not really a big realplayer format fan, but it appears lots of media outlets use it. I was unable to play the URLs, and the mplayer (which uses ffmpeg) is the old 1.0RC2 so I suspect it does not work. I will table this problem for now, as I've got many todo's for my ps2linux_v0.8 installer.]

Nix the above, problem solved, not tabled. I checked out the bbc help page for the correct links, which are .ram and .asx. Both play, but the .asx skips. So .ram sounds great, I'm playing it now (on my v3-ps2linux-hdd). Here's the bbc correct link page:

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...al_wma_streams

Here's the command example for playing bbc radio 2 with mplayer on ps2-linux:

mplayer -ao sdl -playlist http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.ram

I use -ao sdl as the most efficient audio out (otherwise it skips), I also use "-autosync 30" for flash video but it is not needed here. The -playlist option is needed for .ram and .asx.
(add "-v" to troubleshoot problems)

ENJOY!

[peterdcrees]

@deba5er

Thanks, I already managed to get it working last night. Using the direct links to the BBC .ra realaudio streams from this site:
http://beebotron.org/indexlite.php

I have created mplayer scripts and added fluxbox menu entries for each station and even a few of my favourite shows from the "listen again" archives. Superb!

[deba5er]

@peterdcrees

Excellent! Is it stable with network use, no keyboard/mouse on v15 slim?
Any other useability problems? Anything the distro is missing? I just figured out the conky problem tonight (delete the last line from /usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf, which just shows the 10th process sorted by memory use). I'm still working on v0.8 and need to have something working for v14+ before I feel like I have a new beta release. I'm putting the mplayer, virtual keyboard, youtube scripts in the new image to save people from installing/configuring.

[Peterpan]

@deba5er/dlanor/peterdcrees

Great job! Thank you for your scripting and testing. The 0,7 USb image works
fine on my V17pal ps2 (without sound). Dillo and mplayer doesn´t work (dns can´t solve..). Cheap usb sticks doesn´t work. I use sandisk or verbatime. I´m glad to hear that deba5er ist still working on v 0,8 .

[deba5er]

@peterpan

Dillo and mplayer doesn´t work (dns can´t solve..).

Have you edited /etc/resolv.conf to look like:
-----
search
nameserver 192.168.0.1
-----
where 192.168.0.1 is replaced by your gateway router IP address. Sometimes you have a cable modem/dsl modem & then your wireless router & then your PS2 so you might have to set the gateway address to the cable modem instead of the router.

You also have to edit /etc/network/interfaces similar to the following:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

If this configuration is ok for your network, test by pinging your routers IP address or another IP address locally. Others have had to turn off features on their modchip - "The network problems was related to the "DVD+R DL" option from my modchip (Thunder Pro II)."

Let me know if you get it working as I need testers to tell me how stable booting and running from usb is for hours at a time.