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| 4 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> | |
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| 2745 | 6 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1>2.3.1. Video output devices</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 7 |
| 1682 | 8 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
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| 1987 | 10 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>General:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 11 |
| 3027 | 12 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, |
| 13 sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.13>x11</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT | |
| 14 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 with optional SHM | |
| 15 extension</TD><TR> | |
| 16 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 17 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.2>xv</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 18 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension | |
| 19 (hardware YUV & scaling)</TD><TR> | |
| 20 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 21 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.10>gl</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 22 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>OpenGL renderer, so far works only with: | |
| 1682 | 23 <UL><LI>all cards with Utah-GLX |
| 24 <LI>Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3 | |
| 25 <LI>Radeon with X/DRI CVS</UL></TD><TR> | |
| 3027 | 26 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 27 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.3>dga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 28 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 DGA extension</TD><TR> | |
| 29 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 30 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.6>fbdev</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 31 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to general framebuffers</TD><TR> | |
| 32 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 33 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.5>svga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 34 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to SVGAlib</TD><TR> | |
| 35 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 36 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.4>sdl</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 37 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> | |
| 1682 | 38 <CODE>1.1.7:</CODE> supports software scaling<BR> |
| 39 <CODE>1.1.8:</CODE> supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen)<BR> | |
| 40 <CODE>1.2.0:</CODE> supports AAlib (-vo aa is very recommended, see below!)</TD><TR> | |
| 3027 | 41 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 42 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.14-TODO>ggi</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, | |
| 43 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>similar to SDL</TD><TR> | |
| 44 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 45 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.11>aa</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 46 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>textmode rendering with AAlib</TD><TR> | |
| 47 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 48 size=2><a href=#2.3.1.12>vesa</a></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 49 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to VESA BIOS.</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 50 |
| 3027 | 51 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 52 size=2>Card specific:</B></P></TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 53 |
| 3027 | 54 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, |
| 55 sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>mga</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT | |
| 56 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 hardware | |
| 57 YUV overlay via the mga_vid device</TD><TR> | |
| 58 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 59 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>xmga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 60 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 | |
| 61 window<BR> | |
| 1682 | 62 (<I>Xv emulation on X 3.3.x!</I>)</TD><TR> |
| 3027 | 63 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 64 size=2>syncfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, | |
| 65 sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use | |
| 66 mga/xmga)</TD><TR> | |
| 67 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 68 size=2>3dfx</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 69 size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe | |
| 70 broken)</TD><TR> | |
| 71 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 72 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.9>tdfxfb</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 73 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx | |
| 74 framebuffer (works!)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 75 |
| 3027 | 76 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 77 size=2>Special:</B></P></TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 78 |
| 3027 | 79 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, |
| 80 sans-serif" size=2>png</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 81 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PNG files output (use -z switch to set | |
| 82 compression)</TD><TR> | |
| 83 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 84 size=2>pgm</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 85 size=2>PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)</TD><TR> | |
| 86 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 87 size=2>md5</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 88 size=2>MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests)</TD><TR> | |
| 89 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 90 size=2>null</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 91 size=2>Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 92 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 93 |
| 1682 | 94 <P>NOTE: <I>check the following subsections for details and requirements!</I></P> |
| 1612 | 95 |
| 96 | |
| 2745 | 97 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.1>2.3.1.1. Setting up MTRR</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 98 |
| 1946 | 99 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly, |
| 100 because they can give a big performance boost.</P> | |
| 101 | |
| 102 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>' :</P> | |
| 103 | |
| 104 <P><CODE> | |
| 105 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR> | |
| 106 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR> | |
| 107 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1<BR> | |
| 108 </CODE></P> | |
| 109 | |
| 110 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16Mb memory. I did this from | |
| 111 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P> | |
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113 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the base |
| 1946 | 114 address. |
| 1682 | 115 You have 3 ways to find it:</P> |
| 1612 | 116 |
| 1682 | 117 <P><UL> |
| 118 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example: | |
| 119 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR> | |
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120 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI> |
| 1682 | 121 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): |
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123 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE> |
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124 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE> |
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125 </P> |
| 1682 | 126 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg): |
| 127 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P> | |
| 128 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 129 |
| 1682 | 130 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram |
| 131 size to hexadecimal, or use this table:</P> | |
| 1612 | 132 |
| 1682 | 133 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 134 <TD> </TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH=10%></TD><TD>0x100000</TD><TR> | |
| 135 <TD></TD><TD>2 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x200000</TD><TR> | |
| 136 <TD></TD><TD>4 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x400000</TD><TR> | |
| 137 <TD></TD><TD>8 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x800000</TD><TR> | |
| 138 <TD></TD><TD>16 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x1000000</TD><TR> | |
| 139 <TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD><TR> | |
| 140 </TABLE> | |
| 1612 | 141 |
| 142 | |
| 1682 | 143 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers! |
| 144 For example, for the Matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB | |
| 145 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:</P> | |
| 1612 | 146 |
| 147 | |
| 1682 | 148 <P><CODE> echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 149 |
| 150 | |
| 1682 | 151 <P>Not all CPUs support MTRRs. For example older K6-2's [around 266Mhz, |
| 152 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat /proc/cpuinfo</CODE>' | |
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153 to check it').</P> |
| 1612 | 154 |
| 2745 | 155 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2>2.3.1.2. Xv</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 156 |
| 1682 | 157 <P>Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, you can use your card's hardware YUV routines |
| 158 using the XVideo extension. This is what the option '-vo xv' uses. | |
| 159 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P> | |
| 160 <P><UL> | |
| 161 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo) | |
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162 <LI>Your card actually supports hardware acceleration (modern cards do) |
| 1682 | 163 <LI>X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: |
| 1612 | 164 |
| 1682 | 165 <P><CODE> (II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P> |
| 166 <P>in /var/log/XFree86.0.log</P> | |
| 1612 | 167 |
| 1682 | 168 <P>NOTE: this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is |
| 169 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is loaded!</P> | |
| 1612 | 170 |
| 1682 | 171 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the |
| 172 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar | |
| 173 to this: | |
| 174 <PRE> | |
| 1612 | 175 X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
| 176 screen #0 | |
| 177 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
| 178 number of ports: 1 | |
| 179 port base: 43 | |
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180 operations supported: PutImage |
| 1612 | 181 supported visuals: |
| 182 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
| 183 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
| 184 number of attributes: 5 | |
| 185 (...) | |
| 186 Number of image formats: 7 | |
| 187 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
| 188 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 189 bits per pixel: 16 | |
| 190 number of planes: 1 | |
| 191 type: YUV (packed) | |
| 192 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
| 193 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 194 bits per pixel: 12 | |
| 195 number of planes: 3 | |
| 196 type: YUV (planar) | |
| 197 (...etc...) | |
| 1682 | 198 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 199 |
| 1682 | 200 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be |
| 201 usable with <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> | |
| 1612 | 202 |
| 1682 | 203 <LI>And finally, check if <B>MPlayer</B> was compiled with 'xv' support. |
| 204 ./configure prints this. | |
| 1612 | 205 |
| 1682 | 206 </UL></P> |
| 207 | |
| 2745 | 208 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.1>2.3.1.2.1. 3dfx cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 209 |
| 1682 | 210 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration, |
| 211 it didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have | |
| 212 XFree86 version 4.1.0 or greater, it works ok. Alternatively, you can use | |
| 213 <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">DRI</A> cvs. | |
| 214 If you experience strange effects using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too) | |
| 2745 | 215 and see if it helps. Check the <A HREF="#2.3.1.4">SDL section</A> for details.</P> |
| 1612 | 216 |
| 2745 | 217 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9</A> |
| 1992 | 218 section!</P> |
| 1612 | 219 |
| 2865 | 220 |
| 2745 | 221 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.2>2.3.1.2.2. S3 cards</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 222 |
| 223 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3 | |
| 1988 | 224 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. sell it.</P> |
| 1682 | 225 |
| 3027 | 226 <P><B>NOTE</B>: Savage cards have a slow YV12 image displaying capability (it needs |
| 2883 | 227 to do YV12->YUY2 conversion, because the Savage hardware can't display YV12). |
| 228 So when this documentation says at some point "this has YV12 output use this, | |
| 3027 | 229 it's faster", it's not sure. Try.</P> |
| 2865 | 230 |
| 231 | |
| 2745 | 232 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.3>2.3.1.2.3. nVidia cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 233 |
| 1682 | 234 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux.. You'll have to use the |
| 3290 | 235 binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's website. The standard XFree86 |
| 1682 | 236 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to nVidia's closed |
| 237 sources/specifications.</P> | |
| 1612 | 238 |
| 3290 | 239 <P>As far as I know the latest XFree86 driver contains XVideo support for |
| 240 Geforce 2 and 3.</P> | |
| 241 | |
| 1682 | 242 <P><UL><LI>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nvidia driver :( |
| 243 Complain to NVidia.</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 244 |
| 245 | |
| 2745 | 246 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 247 |
| 1920 | 248 <P> |
| 2063 | 249 <LI>The GATOS driver (which you should use) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means that decoding speed |
| 1682 | 250 (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try |
| 1920 | 251 disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI> |
| 252 | |
| 253 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version | |
| 3027 | 254 4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can |
| 255 happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and | |
| 256 no libraries or X are needed. Read <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A | |
| 3053 | 257 HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon video overlay</A> sections).</LI> </P> |
| 1612 | 258 |
| 259 | |
| 2745 | 260 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.5>2.3.1.2.5. NeoMagic cards</A></B></P> |
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265 4.2.0, or download a modified driver for 4.0.3 or 4.1.0 from here : |
| 2614 | 266 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver</A> |
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| 2745 | 272 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3>2.3.1.3. DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 273 |
| 2745 | 274 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.1>2.3.1.3.1. Summary</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 275 |
| 1682 | 276 <P>This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and |
| 277 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).</P> | |
| 1612 | 278 |
| 279 | |
| 2745 | 280 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.2>2.3.1.3.2. What is DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 281 |
| 1682 | 282 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to |
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283 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. |
| 1682 | 284 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into |
| 285 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only | |
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286 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in |
| 1682 | 287 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT |
| 288 recommended!).</P> | |
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290 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was |
| 1682 | 291 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.</P> |
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293 <P>DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For |
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294 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the |
| 1682 | 295 XVidMode extension.</P> |
| 1612 | 296 |
| 1682 | 297 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows |
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| 1682 | 300 versa. </P> |
| 1612 | 301 |
| 1682 | 302 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the |
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| 1682 | 304 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...</P> |
| 1612 | 305 |
| 306 | |
| 2745 | 307 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.3>2.3.1.3.3. Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 308 |
| 309 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P> | |
| 310 | |
| 311 <P> <CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P> | |
| 312 | |
| 313 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED! | |
| 314 <B>MPlayer</B>'s DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it | |
| 315 with --enable-dga.</P> | |
| 1612 | 316 |
| 1682 | 317 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with |
| 318 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that | |
| 319 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 320 |
| 1682 | 321 <P>Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory. |
| 322 If you want to run it as user, then install <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root:</P> | |
| 1612 | 323 |
| 1682 | 324 <P><CODE> |
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| 1686 | 327 chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 328 |
| 329 | |
| 1682 | 330 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P> |
| 1612 | 331 |
| 332 | |
| 1682 | 333 <P><B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> |
| 334 This is a <B>BIG</B> security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 335 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 336 privilegies through suid root mplayer.<BR> | |
| 337 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B></P> | |
| 338 | |
| 339 <P>Now use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:) | |
| 340 You should also try if the '-vo sdl:dga' option works for you! It's much | |
| 341 faster!!!</P> | |
| 342 | |
| 2745 | 343 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.4>2.3.1.3.4. Resolution switching</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 344 |
| 345 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. | |
| 346 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same | |
| 347 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact | |
| 348 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the | |
| 1686 | 349 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in |
| 1682 | 350 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for XFree 4.0.X respectively). |
| 351 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites | |
| 352 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and | |
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| 1682 | 354 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at: |
| 355 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P> | |
| 356 <P>See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.</P> | |
| 357 | |
| 2745 | 358 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.5>2.3.1.3.5. DGA & MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 359 |
| 1682 | 360 <P>DGA is used in two places with <B>MPlayer</B>: The SDL driver can be made to make |
| 361 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). | |
| 362 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain | |
| 363 how the DGA driver for <B>MPlayer</B> works.</P> | |
| 1612 | 364 |
| 2745 | 365 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.6>2.3.1.3.6. Features of the DGA driver</A></B></P> |
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| 1682 | 367 <P>The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line. |
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370 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) - |
| 1682 | 371 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching |
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| 1682 | 373 to scale the image. |
| 374 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode | |
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376 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other |
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| 1682 | 378 file. |
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| 1682 | 382 conversion has to be done.</P> |
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385 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which |
| 1682 | 386 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- |
| 387 buffering is enabled or not.</P> | |
| 1612 | 388 |
| 1682 | 389 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in |
| 390 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the | |
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| 1682 | 392 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. |
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| 1682 | 394 video data.</P> |
| 395 | |
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398 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only |
| 1682 | 399 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may |
| 400 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of | |
| 401 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P> | |
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| 1682 | 403 |
| 2745 | 404 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.7>2.3.1.3.7. Speed issues</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 405 |
| 406 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using | |
| 407 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. | |
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| 1682 | 409 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time |
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411 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your |
| 1682 | 412 box ...</P> |
| 413 | |
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| 1682 | 416 is optimized.</P> |
| 417 | |
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418 <P>If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require |
| 1682 | 419 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P> |
| 1612 | 420 |
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421 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports |
| 1682 | 422 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode.</P> |
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| 1682 | 424 <P>I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 |
| 425 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P> | |
| 1612 | 426 |
| 2745 | 427 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.8>2.3.1.3.8. Known bugs</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 428 |
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429 <P>Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They |
| 1682 | 430 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless |
| 431 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P> | |
| 1612 | 432 |
| 1682 | 433 <P><UL> |
| 434 <LI>with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors | |
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| 1682 | 436 using of DGA |
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437 <LI>some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use |
| 1682 | 438 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually) |
| 439 <LI>some drivers simply display strange colors | |
| 440 <LI>some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's | |
| 441 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?) | |
| 442 <LI>some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this | |
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443 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of |
| 1682 | 444 100000x100000 or the like ... |
| 445 <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled | |
| 446 </UL></P> | |
| 447 | |
| 2745 | 448 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.9>2.3.1.3.9. Future work</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 449 |
| 450 <P><UL><LI>use of the new X11 render interface for OSD | |
| 451 <LI>where is my TODO list ???? :-(((</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 452 |
| 453 | |
| 2745 | 454 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.A>2.3.1.3.A. Some modelines</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 455 |
| 1682 | 456 <PRE> |
| 1612 | 457 Section "Modes" |
| 458 Identifier "Modes[0]" | |
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459 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 |
| 1612 | 460 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425 |
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461 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 |
| 1612 | 462 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan |
| 463 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310 | |
| 464 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 465 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 466 EndSection | |
| 1682 | 467 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 468 |
| 1682 | 469 <P>These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver |
| 470 module.</P> | |
| 1612 | 471 |
| 472 | |
| 2745 | 473 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.B>2.3.1.3.B. Bug Reports</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 474 |
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476 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the |
| 1682 | 477 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga:</P> |
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| 1682 | 481 also help. Thanks!</P> |
| 1612 | 482 |
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| 1682 | 484 <P><I>Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)</I></P> |
| 1612 | 485 |
| 486 | |
| 2745 | 487 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.4>2.3.1.4. SDL</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 488 |
| 1682 | 489 <P>Here are some notes about SDL out in <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> |
| 1612 | 490 |
| 491 | |
| 492 | |
| 1682 | 493 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 494 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>There are several commandline switches for SDL:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 495 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo sdl:name</TD><TD> </TD><TD> | |
| 496 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib, dga, x11)</TD><TR> | |
| 497 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-ao sdl:name</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specifies sdl audio driver to use (ie. dsp, | |
| 1682 | 498 esd, arts)</TD><TR> |
| 1987 | 499 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-noxv</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>disables Xvideo hardware acceleration</TD><TR> |
| 500 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-forcexv</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>tries to force Xvideo acceleration</TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 501 |
| 1987 | 502 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>SDL Keys:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 503 |
| 1987 | 504 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>F</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggles fullscreen/windowed mode</TD><TR> |
| 505 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>C</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>cycles available fullscreen modes</TD><TR> | |
| 506 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>W/S</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mappings for * and / (mixer control)</TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 507 |
| 1682 | 508 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 509 |
| 1682 | 510 <P><B>KNOWN BUGS:</B></P> |
| 511 <P><UL><LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) | |
| 512 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). | |
| 513 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 514 |
| 2745 | 515 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.5>2.3.1.5. SVGAlib</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 516 |
| 517 <P>If you don't have X, you can use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the | |
| 518 -fs switch, since it toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's | |
| 519 SLOOOW now, unless you have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 520 |
| 1682 | 521 <P>Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in |
| 522 order for <B>MPlayer</B> build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be | |
| 523 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your | |
| 524 card & monitor.</P> | |
| 1612 | 525 |
| 2745 | 526 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.6>2.3.1.6. Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 527 |
| 528 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure . | |
| 529 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources | |
| 530 (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !</P> | |
| 1612 | 531 |
| 1682 | 532 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
| 533 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) : | |
| 534 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display | |
| 535 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or | |
| 536 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P> | |
| 1612 | 537 |
| 1682 | 538 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P> |
| 1612 | 539 |
| 1682 | 540 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 541 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fb</TD><TD> </TD><TD> |
| 542 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fd0)</TD><TR> | |
| 543 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fbmode</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mode name to use (according to /etc/fb.modes)</TD><TR> | |
| 544 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fbmodeconfig</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> config file of modes (default /etc/fb.modes)</TD><TR> | |
| 545 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-monitor_hfreq</TD><TD></TD><TD ROWSPAN=3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>IMPORTANT values, see example.conf</TD><TR> | |
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| 1987 | 547 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-monitor_dotclock</TD><TD></TD><TR> |
| 1682 | 548 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 549 |
| 1682 | 550 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P> |
| 1612 | 551 |
| 1682 | 552 <P><CODE> mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 553 |
| 1682 | 554 <P><UL><LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes . Can be |
| 555 used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is supported only | |
| 556 if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format. | |
| 557 Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current, | |
| 2507 | 558 or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI> |
| 1682 | 559 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs option |
| 2507 | 560 isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI> |
| 561 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE><BR> | |
| 562 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR> | |
| 563 To turn the cursor back on : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 564 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 565 |
| 1682 | 566 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer, |
| 567 and don't ask for it, since it's not an <B>MPlayer</B> limitation.</P> | |
| 1612 | 568 |
| 2745 | 569 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.7>2.3.1.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 570 |
| 1992 | 571 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler) |
| 1682 | 572 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and |
| 573 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both | |
| 574 framebuffer console and under X.</P> | |
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| 1682 | 576 <P>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:</P> |
| 1612 | 577 |
| 1682 | 578 <P><CODE> cd drivers<BR> |
| 579 make</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 580 |
| 1682 | 581 <P>Then create /dev/mga_vid device:</P> |
| 1612 | 582 |
| 1682 | 583 <P><CODE> mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 584 |
| 1682 | 585 <P>and load the driver with</P> |
| 586 | |
| 587 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 588 |
| 1682 | 589 <P>You should verify the memory size detection using the 'dmesg' command. If |
| 590 it's bad, use the mga_ram_size option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's | |
| 591 memory size in MB:</P> | |
| 1612 | 592 |
| 1682 | 593 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 594 |
| 1682 | 595 <P>To make it load/unload automatically when needed, insert the following line |
| 596 at the end of /etc/modules.conf:</P> | |
| 1612 | 597 |
| 1682 | 598 <P><CODE> alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 599 |
| 1682 | 600 <P>Then run</P> |
| 1612 | 601 |
| 1682 | 602 <P><CODE> depmod -a</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 603 |
| 1682 | 604 <P>Now you have to (re)compile <B>MPlayer</B>, ./configure will detect /dev/mga_vid |
| 605 and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from <B>MPlayer</B> goes by '-vo mga' if | |
| 606 you have matroxfb console, or '-vo xmga' under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</P> | |
| 607 | |
| 2108 | 608 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P> |
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| 1612 | 610 |
| 2745 | 611 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.8>2.3.1.8. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 612 |
| 613 <P>SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver</P> | |
| 1612 | 614 |
| 1682 | 615 <P>Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver was not |
| 616 updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. Volunteers | |
| 617 needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P> | |
| 1612 | 618 |
| 2745 | 619 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9. 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 620 |
| 1992 | 621 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with |
| 622 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile with | |
| 623 <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 624 |
| 2745 | 625 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.10>2.3.1.10. OpenGL output</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 626 |
| 1682 | 627 <P><B>MPlayer</B> support displaying movies using OpenGL. Unfortunately, not all |
| 628 drivers support this ability. For example the Utah-GLX drivers | |
| 629 (for XFree86 3.3.6) have it, with all cards. | |
| 630 See <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A> | |
| 631 for details about how to install it.</P> | |
| 1612 | 632 |
| 1682 | 633 <P>XFree86(DRI) >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox, and Radeon cards. |
| 634 See <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A> for download, | |
| 635 and installation instructions.</P> | |
| 1612 | 636 |
| 2745 | 637 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.11>2.3.1.11. AAlib - text mode displaying</B></P> |
| 1612 | 638 |
| 1682 | 639 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful |
| 640 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, | |
| 641 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. | |
| 642 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built.</P> | |
| 1612 | 643 |
| 1682 | 644 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 645 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 646 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>decrease contrast</TD><TR> | |
| 647 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>increase contrast</TD><TR> | |
| 648 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>decrease brightness</TD><TR> | |
| 649 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>increase brightness</TD><TR> | |
| 650 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>switch fast rendering on/off</TD><TR> | |
| 651 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>set dithering mode (none, error distribution, floyd steinberg)</TD><TR> | |
| 652 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>invert image</TD><TR> | |
| 653 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>a</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggles between aa and mplayer control)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 654 |
| 1987 | 655 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The following command line options can be used:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 656 |
| 1987 | 657 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aaosdcolor=V</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>change osd color</TD><TR> |
| 658 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aasubcolor=V</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>change subtitle color</TD><TR> | |
| 659 <TD COLSPAN=3></TD><TD><P><I><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/boldfont, 4/reverse, 5/special)</P></TD><TR> | |
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| 1987 | 661 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options. |
| 1682 | 662 Here are some important:</P></B></TD><TR> |
| 663 | |
| 1987 | 664 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aadriver</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, linux)</TD><TR> |
| 665 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aaextended</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>use all 256 characters</TD><TR> | |
| 666 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aaeight</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>use eight bit ascii</TD><TR> | |
| 667 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-aahelp</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>prints out all aalib options</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 668 </TABLE></P> |
| 669 | |
| 670 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X | |
| 671 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, | |
| 672 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, | |
| 673 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance | |
| 674 bdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :)</P> | |
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| 1682 | 676 <P>Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames!</P> |
| 1612 | 677 |
| 1682 | 678 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not |
| 679 curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa<terminal>! | |
| 680 That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode. | |
| 1731 | 681 See <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A> for further tuning issues.</P> |
| 1612 | 682 |
| 2471 | 683 |
| 2745 | 684 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.12>2.3.1.12. VESA - output to VESA BIOS</B></P> |
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687 card which has VESA VBE 2.0 compatible BIOS. But exists still one reason of |
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688 developing of this driver - it's multiple troubles with displaying movie on TV.<BR> |
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689 <b>VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Version 3.0 Date: September 16, 1998</b> (Page 70) |
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695 <b>Dual-Controller Designs</b><br> |
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696 VBE 3.0 supports the dual-controller design by assuming that since both |
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| 2471 | 710 So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<br> |
| 711 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output | |
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717 - You have chances to watch movies <b>if Linux even doesn't know</b> your video hardware.<BR> |
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721 - You have chances to get <b>working TV-out</b>. (It's known at least for ATI's cards).<BR> |
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725 - Most important :) You can watch <b>DVD at 320x200</b> if you don't have a powerful CPU.<BR> |
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| 2747 | 733 driver is comparable by speed with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> ones.<BR> |
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737 - It <b>doesn't use</b> any <b>hardware accelerations</b> (like YUV overlay or hw scaling).<BR> |
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738 </P> |
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| 3141 | 740 <P>Don't use this driver with <B>GCC 2.96</B> ! It won't work !</P> |
| 741 | |
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742 <P> |
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743 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
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744 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>These switches of command line currently are available for VESA:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 2747 | 745 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo vesa:opts</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>currently recognized: <b>dga</b> to force dga mode and <b>nodga</b> to disable dga mode. Note: you may omit these parameters to enable <b>autodetect</b> of dga mode. (In the future also will specify mode parameters such as refresh rate, interlacing, doublescan and so on. Samples: i43, 85, d100)</TD><TR> |
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748 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>enables userdefined prescaling</TD><TR> |
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749 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fs</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>scales image to fullscreen</TD><TR> |
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| 2747 | 751 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-double</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>enables double buffering mode. (Available only in DGA mode). Should be slower of single buffering, but has no flickering effects.</TD><TR> |
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756 <b>Known problems and workaround:</b><br> |
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758 from text-mode then after terminating mplayer you will have <b>ROM font</b> loaded instead |
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759 of national. You can load national font again by using <b><i>setsysfont</i></b> utility |
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760 from for example Mandrake distribution.<br> |
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761 (<b>Hint</b>: The same utility is used for localizating fbdev).<br> |
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762 - Some <b>Linux graphics drivers</b> don't update active <b>BIOS mode</b> in DOS memory. So if you have such |
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763 problem - always use VESA driver only from <b>text-mode</b>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be |
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764 activated anyway and you will need restart your computer.<br> |
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765 - Often after terminating VESA driver you get <b>black screen</b>. To return your screen |
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766 to original state - simply switch to other console (by pressing <b>Alt-Fx</b>) then switch |
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767 to your previous console by the same way.<br> |
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768 - To get <b>working TV-out</b> you need have plugged tv-connector in before booting |
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769 your PC since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure. |
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775 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no |
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776 hardware acceleration at all. Supports (MMX/3DNow/SSE accelerated, but still |
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779 <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P> |
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781 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support |
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782 hardware acceleration on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue |
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783 coloured window instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in |
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784 handy, but you need powerful CPU to use software scaling. Don't use the |
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785 SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality !</P> |
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| 3290 | 787 <P>Software scaling is very slow, you better try changing video modes instead. |
| 788 It's very simple. See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.3.A>DGA section's modelines</A>, and | |
| 789 insert them into your XF86Config. | |
| 790 <UL> | |
| 791 <LI>If you have XFree86 4.x.x - use the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option. It will | |
| 792 change to a resolution your movie fits in. If it doesn't :</LI> | |
| 793 <LI>With XFree86 3.x.x - you have to cycle through available resolutions | |
| 794 with the <B>CTRL-ALT-plus</B> and <B>minus</B> keys.</LI> | |
| 795 </UL> | |
| 796 | |
| 797 If you can't find the modes you inserted, browse XFree86's output. Some | |
| 798 drivers can't use low pixelclocks that are needed for low resolution | |
| 799 video modes.</P> | |
| 800 | |
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| 3224 | 802 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.14>2.3.1.14. Rage128 (Pro) / Radeon video overlay (radeon_vid)</A></B></P> |
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| 3267 | 804 <b>radeon_vid</b> and <B>rage128_vid</B> provides support for the <b>BackEnd Scaler</b> on ATI <b>Radeon</b> and Rage128 (Pro) chipsets. |
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807 Simply because VESA enables TV-out on ATI's card but Backend scaler is used after |
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808 mode switching. This implementation outputs video stream on both: <b>TV-screen</b> and <b>CRTC</b> |
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809 display simultaneously. (It slightly degrades quality of video output but it's |
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810 much better than nothing). |
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811 Sorry! I couldn't find out any video overlay's related information |
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815 future this stuff will be fully rewritten. This is the first public release of |
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| 2958 | 818 <P><B>Installation</B></P> |
| 819 | |
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820 <P> |
| 2958 | 821 <UL> |
| 822 <LI> | |
| 3224 | 823 <CODE>cd drivers/radeon<BR> |
| 3268 | 824 make<BR> |
| 825 make install<BR> | |
| 826 make nodes</CODE></LI> | |
| 3267 | 827 <LI>add one of the following at the end of the <CODE>/etc/modules.conf</CODE> file :<BR> |
| 828 <CODE> alias char-major-178 radeon_vid</CODE><BR> | |
| 829 <CODE> alias char-major-178 rage128_vid</CODE></LI> | |
| 2958 | 830 <LI>run <CODE>depmod -a</CODE></LI> |
| 831 </UL> | |
| 832 </P> | |
| 833 | |
| 834 <P> | |
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835 <br><b>Usage:</b><BR> |
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836 <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:lvo:/dev/radeon_vid <your options> filename</CODE> |
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837 </P> |
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| 3267 | 839 <P>More examples (for hardware deinterlacing, etc) can be found |
| 840 <A HREF="../drivers/radeon/README">here</A>.</P> | |
| 841 | |
| 2958 | 842 <P><B>NOTE</B>: don't use any framebuffers when you plan to use this driver ! Use |
| 843 it only from textmode console.</P> | |
| 844 | |
| 3224 | 845 <P> |
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846 <b>Conclusion:</b> I know there are lot of lacks and bugs. So if you are able |
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847 to improve something then simply send me your patches. |
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848 </P> |
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| 2745 | 851 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A>2.3.1.A. TV-out support</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 852 |
| 2745 | 853 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.1>2.3.1.A.1. Matrox cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 854 |
| 2486 | 855 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get TV out working :</P> |
| 2309 | 856 |
| 857 <P> | |
| 2486 | 858 <UL> |
| 859 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from | |
| 860 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on | |
| 861 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as | |
| 862 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I> | |
| 863 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work | |
| 864 on it! The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the | |
| 865 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed | |
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| 2486 | 867 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection |
| 868 enabled.</LI> | |
| 869 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels. | |
| 870 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this. | |
| 3030 | 871 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except |
| 872 MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>! | |
| 2486 | 873 <UL> |
| 874 <LI> | |
| 875 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 876 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 877 <LI> | |
| 878 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter | |
| 879 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 880 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 881 <LI> | |
| 882 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the <B>MPlayer</B> | |
| 883 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console | |
| 884 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI> | |
| 885 <LI>Next, run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you | |
| 886 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should | |
| 887 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. The <B>3.</B> option | |
| 888 will turn on independent display, but then you <B>can't use X</B>! If | |
| 3030 | 889 the TV (PAL !) picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to |
| 2486 | 890 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Use other menu |
| 891 items randomly and it'll be OK :)</LI> | |
| 892 </UL> | |
| 893 | |
| 894 <P> | |
| 895 Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear, | |
| 896 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P> | |
| 897 | |
| 898 <P> | |
| 899 <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'<BR> | |
| 900 setterm -blank 0</CODE> | |
| 901 </P> | |
| 902 | |
| 903 <P> | |
| 904 You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear | |
| 905 the screen.. To turn the cursor back :<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 906 </P> | |
| 907 | |
| 908 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640 | |
| 909 -screenh 512 <filename></CODE><BR> | |
| 910 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1 !)<BR> | |
| 911 Change 640x512 if you set the resolution to other..<BR> | |
| 912 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv) !</B> | |
| 913 </P> | |
| 914 </LI> | |
| 915 </LI> | |
| 916 </UL> | |
| 2309 | 917 </P> |
| 918 | |
| 919 | |
| 2745 | 920 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.2>2.3.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 2206 | 921 |
| 922 <P> | |
| 923 <b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR> | |
| 924 Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux. | |
| 925 Below is official answer from ATI Inc.: | |
| 926 | |
| 927 <P> | |
| 928 <code> | |
| 929 <i> | |
| 930 <br>> Hello! | |
| 931 <br>> | |
| 932 <br>> On your pages you wrote that you support linux developers. | |
| 933 <br>> Currently I participate with mplayer project (www.mplayerhq.hu) | |
| 934 <br>> I'm interesting with enabling TV-out on Radeon VE chips during | |
| 935 <br>> movie playback. I would be glad to add this feature to radeonfb driver | |
| 936 <br>> (which can be found in CVS tree of mplayer project at main/drivers/radeon). | |
| 937 <br>> Do I have a chance to get any official technical documenation? | |
| 938 </i> | |
| 939 <br>We will not provide TV out related documents due to macrovision concerns. | |
| 940 <br>Also mpeg2 decoding is something that we MAY consider in the future but not | |
| 941 <br>at this current time. This is again due to proprietary and 3rd party | |
| 942 <br>information. | |
| 943 </code> | |
| 944 </P> | |
| 945 | |
| 946 <P>Pity isn't?</P> | |
| 947 | |
| 948 <P> | |
| 949 <code> | |
| 950 <B>Q:What is Macrovision?</B><BR> | |
| 951 A:It's copy protection mechanism.</code> | |
| 952 </P> | |
| 953 | |
| 954 <P>It means that if they open any TV-out related information then | |
| 955 hackers will be able to disable copy protection on their chips. Therefore | |
| 956 we have no chance to get working TV-out on ATI.</P> | |
| 957 | |
| 958 <P>What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux: | |
| 959 <LI><b>ATI Mach64</b> has <i>ImpacTV</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 960 <LI><b>ASIC Radeon VIVO</b> has <i>Rage Theatre</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 3027 | 961 <LI><b>Radeon VE</b> and <b>Rage PRO LT</b> have <i>ImpacTV2+</i> which is not supported under Linux. |
| 962 But with <B>MPlayer</B> you get <B>full hardware acceleration</B> and <B>TV out</B> | |
| 963 for Radeons ! | |
| 964 Check <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon | |
| 965 acceleration</A> sections.</P> | |
| 2206 | 966 |
| 967 <P> | |
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| 2745 | 969 movies on their TV</b> through <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA drivers</a>. |
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972 <P> |
| 2486 | 973 I should say good words to ATI Inc. too:<br> |
| 974 <b>they produce top quality BIOSes.</b> | |
| 2206 | 975 </P> |
| 976 | |
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983 cards) so you can use <b>any video mode</b> on your <b>TV</b> (from |
| 2471 | 984 <b>320x200</b> up to <b>1024x768</b>).<br> |
| 2747 | 985 From other side (it's known at least for <b>Radeons</b>) there is <b>DGA</b> |
| 986 mode which is detected automatically and in this case you'll get comparable | |
| 987 with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> drivers speed.<br> | |
| 2486 | 988 Only thing you need to do - <b>have TV connector plugged in before booting your |
| 2471 | 989 PC</b> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure. |
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| 2745 | 993 For detail see <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> sections of this |
| 2471 | 994 documentation. |
| 2206 | 995 </P> |
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