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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> |
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| 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> |
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12 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.13>x11</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 with optional SHM extension</TD><TR> |
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13 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.2>xv</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)</TD><TR> |
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| 1682 | 15 <UL><LI>all cards with Utah-GLX |
| 16 <LI>Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3 | |
| 17 <LI>Radeon with X/DRI CVS</UL></TD><TR> | |
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18 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.3>dga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 DGA extension</TD><TR> |
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19 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.6>fbdev</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to general framebuffers</TD><TR> |
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20 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.5>svga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to SVGAlib</TD><TR> |
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21 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.4>sdl</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> |
| 1682 | 22 <CODE>1.1.7:</CODE> supports software scaling<BR> |
| 23 <CODE>1.1.8:</CODE> supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen)<BR> | |
| 24 <CODE>1.2.0:</CODE> supports AAlib (-vo aa is very recommended, see below!)</TD><TR> | |
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27 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><a href=#2.3.1.12>vesa</a></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to VESA BIOS.</TD><TR> |
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| 1987 | 29 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Card specific:</B></P></TD><TR> |
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31 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>mga</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device</TD><TR> |
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32 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>xmga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window<BR> |
| 1682 | 33 (<I>Xv emulation on X 3.3.x!</I>)</TD><TR> |
| 1987 | 34 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>syncfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga)</TD><TR> |
| 2131 | 35 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3dfx</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe |
| 1682 | 36 broken)</TD><TR> |
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37 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.9>tdfxfb</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx framebuffer (works!)</TD><TR> |
| 1682 | 38 |
| 1987 | 39 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Special:</B></P></TD><TR> |
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| 1987 | 41 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>png</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression)</TD><TR> |
| 42 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>pgm</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)</TD><TR> | |
| 43 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>md5</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests)</TD><TR> | |
| 44 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>null</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 45 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 46 |
| 1682 | 47 <P>NOTE: <I>check the following subsections for details and requirements!</I></P> |
| 1612 | 48 |
| 49 | |
| 2745 | 50 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.1>2.3.1.1. Setting up MTRR</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 51 |
| 1946 | 52 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly, |
| 53 because they can give a big performance boost.</P> | |
| 54 | |
| 55 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>' :</P> | |
| 56 | |
| 57 <P><CODE> | |
| 58 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR> | |
| 59 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR> | |
| 60 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1<BR> | |
| 61 </CODE></P> | |
| 62 | |
| 63 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16Mb memory. I did this from | |
| 64 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P> | |
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66 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the base |
| 1946 | 67 address. |
| 1682 | 68 You have 3 ways to find it:</P> |
| 1612 | 69 |
| 1682 | 70 <P><UL> |
| 71 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example: | |
| 72 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR> | |
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73 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI> |
| 1682 | 74 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): |
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76 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE> |
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77 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE> |
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78 </P> |
| 1682 | 79 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg): |
| 80 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P> | |
| 81 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 82 |
| 1682 | 83 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram |
| 84 size to hexadecimal, or use this table:</P> | |
| 1612 | 85 |
| 1682 | 86 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 87 <TD> </TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH=10%></TD><TD>0x100000</TD><TR> | |
| 88 <TD></TD><TD>2 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x200000</TD><TR> | |
| 89 <TD></TD><TD>4 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x400000</TD><TR> | |
| 90 <TD></TD><TD>8 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x800000</TD><TR> | |
| 91 <TD></TD><TD>16 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x1000000</TD><TR> | |
| 92 <TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD><TR> | |
| 93 </TABLE> | |
| 1612 | 94 |
| 95 | |
| 1682 | 96 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers! |
| 97 For example, for the Matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB | |
| 98 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:</P> | |
| 1612 | 99 |
| 100 | |
| 1682 | 101 <P><CODE> echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 102 |
| 103 | |
| 1682 | 104 <P>Not all CPUs support MTRRs. For example older K6-2's [around 266Mhz, |
| 105 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat /proc/cpuinfo</CODE>' | |
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106 to check it').</P> |
| 1612 | 107 |
| 2745 | 108 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2>2.3.1.2. Xv</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 109 |
| 1682 | 110 <P>Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, you can use your card's hardware YUV routines |
| 111 using the XVideo extension. This is what the option '-vo xv' uses. | |
| 112 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P> | |
| 113 <P><UL> | |
| 114 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo) | |
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115 <LI>Your card actually supports hardware acceleration (modern cards do) |
| 1682 | 116 <LI>X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: |
| 1612 | 117 |
| 1682 | 118 <P><CODE> (II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P> |
| 119 <P>in /var/log/XFree86.0.log</P> | |
| 1612 | 120 |
| 1682 | 121 <P>NOTE: this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is |
| 122 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is loaded!</P> | |
| 1612 | 123 |
| 1682 | 124 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the |
| 125 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar | |
| 126 to this: | |
| 127 <PRE> | |
| 1612 | 128 X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
| 129 screen #0 | |
| 130 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
| 131 number of ports: 1 | |
| 132 port base: 43 | |
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133 operations supported: PutImage |
| 1612 | 134 supported visuals: |
| 135 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
| 136 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
| 137 number of attributes: 5 | |
| 138 (...) | |
| 139 Number of image formats: 7 | |
| 140 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
| 141 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 142 bits per pixel: 16 | |
| 143 number of planes: 1 | |
| 144 type: YUV (packed) | |
| 145 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
| 146 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 147 bits per pixel: 12 | |
| 148 number of planes: 3 | |
| 149 type: YUV (planar) | |
| 150 (...etc...) | |
| 1682 | 151 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 152 |
| 1682 | 153 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be |
| 154 usable with <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> | |
| 1612 | 155 |
| 1682 | 156 <LI>And finally, check if <B>MPlayer</B> was compiled with 'xv' support. |
| 157 ./configure prints this. | |
| 1612 | 158 |
| 1682 | 159 </UL></P> |
| 160 | |
| 2745 | 161 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.1>2.3.1.2.1. 3dfx cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 162 |
| 1682 | 163 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration, |
| 164 it didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have | |
| 165 XFree86 version 4.1.0 or greater, it works ok. Alternatively, you can use | |
| 166 <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">DRI</A> cvs. | |
| 167 If you experience strange effects using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too) | |
| 2745 | 168 and see if it helps. Check the <A HREF="#2.3.1.4">SDL section</A> for details.</P> |
| 1612 | 169 |
| 2745 | 170 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9</A> |
| 1992 | 171 section!</P> |
| 1612 | 172 |
| 2865 | 173 |
| 2745 | 174 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.2>2.3.1.2.2. S3 cards</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 175 |
| 176 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3 | |
| 1988 | 177 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. sell it.</P> |
| 1682 | 178 |
| 2883 | 179 <P><B>NOTE</B>: Savage4 has a slow YV12 image displaying capability (it needs |
| 180 to do YV12->YUY2 conversion, because the Savage hardware can't display YV12). | |
| 181 So when this documentation says at some point "this has YV12 output use this, | |
| 182 it's faster", you shouldn't. Stick to YUY2.</P> | |
| 2865 | 183 |
| 184 | |
| 2745 | 185 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.3>2.3.1.2.3. nVidia cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 186 |
| 1682 | 187 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux.. You'll have to use the |
| 188 binary nVidia driver, available at nVidia's website. The standard X | |
| 189 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to nVidia's closed | |
| 190 sources/specifications.</P> | |
| 1612 | 191 |
| 1682 | 192 <P><UL><LI>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nvidia driver :( |
| 193 Complain to NVidia.</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 194 |
| 195 | |
| 2745 | 196 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 197 |
| 1920 | 198 <P> |
| 2063 | 199 <LI>The GATOS driver (which you should use) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means that decoding speed |
| 1682 | 200 (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try |
| 1920 | 201 disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI> |
| 202 | |
| 203 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version | |
| 2959 | 204 4.1.0 doesn't. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can happily get |
| 205 <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and no libraries | |
| 206 or X are needed. Read <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A | |
| 207 HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon acceleration</A> sections).</LI> | |
| 1920 | 208 </P> |
| 1612 | 209 |
| 210 | |
| 2745 | 211 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.5>2.3.1.2.5. NeoMagic cards</A></B></P> |
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| 2614 | 217 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver</A> |
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| 2745 | 223 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3>2.3.1.3. DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 224 |
| 2745 | 225 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.1>2.3.1.3.1. Summary</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 226 |
| 1682 | 227 <P>This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and |
| 228 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).</P> | |
| 1612 | 229 |
| 230 | |
| 2745 | 231 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.2>2.3.1.3.2. What is DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 232 |
| 1682 | 233 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to |
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234 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. |
| 1682 | 235 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into |
| 236 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only | |
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237 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in |
| 1682 | 238 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT |
| 239 recommended!).</P> | |
| 1612 | 240 |
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241 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was |
| 1682 | 242 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.</P> |
| 1612 | 243 |
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| 1682 | 246 XVidMode extension.</P> |
| 1612 | 247 |
| 1682 | 248 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows |
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250 running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice |
| 1682 | 251 versa. </P> |
| 1612 | 252 |
| 1682 | 253 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the |
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254 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video |
| 1682 | 255 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...</P> |
| 1612 | 256 |
| 257 | |
| 2745 | 258 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.3>2.3.1.3.3. Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 259 |
| 260 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P> | |
| 261 | |
| 262 <P> <CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P> | |
| 263 | |
| 264 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED! | |
| 265 <B>MPlayer</B>'s DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it | |
| 266 with --enable-dga.</P> | |
| 1612 | 267 |
| 1682 | 268 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with |
| 269 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that | |
| 270 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 271 |
| 1682 | 272 <P>Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory. |
| 273 If you want to run it as user, then install <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root:</P> | |
| 1612 | 274 |
| 1682 | 275 <P><CODE> |
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277 chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR> |
| 1686 | 278 chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 279 |
| 280 | |
| 1682 | 281 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P> |
| 1612 | 282 |
| 283 | |
| 1682 | 284 <P><B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> |
| 285 This is a <B>BIG</B> security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 286 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 287 privilegies through suid root mplayer.<BR> | |
| 288 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B></P> | |
| 289 | |
| 290 <P>Now use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:) | |
| 291 You should also try if the '-vo sdl:dga' option works for you! It's much | |
| 292 faster!!!</P> | |
| 293 | |
| 2745 | 294 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.4>2.3.1.3.4. Resolution switching</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 295 |
| 296 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. | |
| 297 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same | |
| 298 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact | |
| 299 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the | |
| 1686 | 300 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in |
| 1682 | 301 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for XFree 4.0.X respectively). |
| 302 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites | |
| 303 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and | |
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| 1682 | 305 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at: |
| 306 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P> | |
| 307 <P>See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.</P> | |
| 308 | |
| 2745 | 309 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.5>2.3.1.3.5. DGA & MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 310 |
| 1682 | 311 <P>DGA is used in two places with <B>MPlayer</B>: The SDL driver can be made to make |
| 312 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). | |
| 313 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain | |
| 314 how the DGA driver for <B>MPlayer</B> works.</P> | |
| 1612 | 315 |
| 2745 | 316 <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 | 318 <P>The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line. |
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| 1682 | 322 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching |
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| 1682 | 324 to scale the image. |
| 325 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode | |
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327 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other |
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| 1682 | 329 file. |
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| 1682 | 333 conversion has to be done.</P> |
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335 <P>If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to |
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336 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which |
| 1682 | 337 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- |
| 338 buffering is enabled or not.</P> | |
| 1612 | 339 |
| 1682 | 340 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in |
| 341 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the | |
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| 1682 | 343 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. |
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| 1682 | 345 video data.</P> |
| 346 | |
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349 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only |
| 1682 | 350 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may |
| 351 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of | |
| 352 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P> | |
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| 2745 | 355 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.7>2.3.1.3.7. Speed issues</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 356 |
| 357 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using | |
| 358 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. | |
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| 1682 | 360 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time |
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362 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your |
| 1682 | 363 box ...</P> |
| 364 | |
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| 1682 | 367 is optimized.</P> |
| 368 | |
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369 <P>If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require |
| 1682 | 370 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P> |
| 1612 | 371 |
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372 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports |
| 1682 | 373 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode.</P> |
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| 1682 | 375 <P>I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 |
| 376 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P> | |
| 1612 | 377 |
| 2745 | 378 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.8>2.3.1.3.8. Known bugs</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 379 |
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380 <P>Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They |
| 1682 | 381 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless |
| 382 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P> | |
| 1612 | 383 |
| 1682 | 384 <P><UL> |
| 385 <LI>with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors | |
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| 1682 | 387 using of DGA |
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388 <LI>some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use |
| 1682 | 389 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually) |
| 390 <LI>some drivers simply display strange colors | |
| 391 <LI>some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's | |
| 392 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?) | |
| 393 <LI>some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this | |
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394 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of |
| 1682 | 395 100000x100000 or the like ... |
| 396 <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled | |
| 397 </UL></P> | |
| 398 | |
| 2745 | 399 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.9>2.3.1.3.9. Future work</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 400 |
| 401 <P><UL><LI>use of the new X11 render interface for OSD | |
| 402 <LI>where is my TODO list ???? :-(((</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 403 |
| 404 | |
| 2745 | 405 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.A>2.3.1.3.A. Some modelines</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 406 |
| 1682 | 407 <PRE> |
| 1612 | 408 Section "Modes" |
| 409 Identifier "Modes[0]" | |
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410 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 |
| 1612 | 411 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425 |
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412 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 |
| 1612 | 413 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan |
| 414 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310 | |
| 415 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 416 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 417 EndSection | |
| 1682 | 418 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 419 |
| 1682 | 420 <P>These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver |
| 421 module.</P> | |
| 1612 | 422 |
| 423 | |
| 2745 | 424 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.B>2.3.1.3.B. Bug Reports</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 425 |
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427 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the |
| 1682 | 428 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga:</P> |
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431 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might |
| 1682 | 432 also help. Thanks!</P> |
| 1612 | 433 |
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| 1682 | 435 <P><I>Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)</I></P> |
| 1612 | 436 |
| 437 | |
| 2745 | 438 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.4>2.3.1.4. SDL</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 439 |
| 1682 | 440 <P>Here are some notes about SDL out in <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> |
| 1612 | 441 |
| 442 | |
| 443 | |
| 1682 | 444 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 445 <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> |
| 446 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo sdl:name</TD><TD> </TD><TD> | |
| 447 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib, dga, x11)</TD><TR> | |
| 448 <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 | 449 esd, arts)</TD><TR> |
| 1987 | 450 <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> |
| 451 <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 | 452 |
| 1987 | 453 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>SDL Keys:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 454 |
| 1987 | 455 <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> |
| 456 <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> | |
| 457 <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 | 458 |
| 1682 | 459 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 460 |
| 1682 | 461 <P><B>KNOWN BUGS:</B></P> |
| 462 <P><UL><LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) | |
| 463 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). | |
| 464 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 465 |
| 2745 | 466 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.5>2.3.1.5. SVGAlib</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 467 |
| 468 <P>If you don't have X, you can use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the | |
| 469 -fs switch, since it toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's | |
| 470 SLOOOW now, unless you have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 471 |
| 1682 | 472 <P>Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in |
| 473 order for <B>MPlayer</B> build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be | |
| 474 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your | |
| 475 card & monitor.</P> | |
| 1612 | 476 |
| 2745 | 477 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.6>2.3.1.6. Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 478 |
| 479 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure . | |
| 480 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources | |
| 481 (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !</P> | |
| 1612 | 482 |
| 1682 | 483 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
| 484 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) : | |
| 485 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display | |
| 486 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or | |
| 487 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P> | |
| 1612 | 488 |
| 1682 | 489 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P> |
| 1612 | 490 |
| 1682 | 491 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 492 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fb</TD><TD> </TD><TD> |
| 493 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fd0)</TD><TR> | |
| 494 <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> | |
| 495 <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> | |
| 496 <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 | 498 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-monitor_dotclock</TD><TD></TD><TR> |
| 1682 | 499 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 500 |
| 1682 | 501 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P> |
| 1612 | 502 |
| 1682 | 503 <P><CODE> mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 504 |
| 1682 | 505 <P><UL><LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes . Can be |
| 506 used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is supported only | |
| 507 if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format. | |
| 508 Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current, | |
| 2507 | 509 or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI> |
| 1682 | 510 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs option |
| 2507 | 511 isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI> |
| 512 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE><BR> | |
| 513 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR> | |
| 514 To turn the cursor back on : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 515 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 516 |
| 1682 | 517 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer, |
| 518 and don't ask for it, since it's not an <B>MPlayer</B> limitation.</P> | |
| 1612 | 519 |
| 2745 | 520 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.7>2.3.1.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 521 |
| 1992 | 522 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler) |
| 1682 | 523 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and |
| 524 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both | |
| 525 framebuffer console and under X.</P> | |
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| 1682 | 527 <P>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:</P> |
| 1612 | 528 |
| 1682 | 529 <P><CODE> cd drivers<BR> |
| 530 make</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 531 |
| 1682 | 532 <P>Then create /dev/mga_vid device:</P> |
| 1612 | 533 |
| 1682 | 534 <P><CODE> mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 535 |
| 1682 | 536 <P>and load the driver with</P> |
| 537 | |
| 538 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 539 |
| 1682 | 540 <P>You should verify the memory size detection using the 'dmesg' command. If |
| 541 it's bad, use the mga_ram_size option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's | |
| 542 memory size in MB:</P> | |
| 1612 | 543 |
| 1682 | 544 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 545 |
| 1682 | 546 <P>To make it load/unload automatically when needed, insert the following line |
| 547 at the end of /etc/modules.conf:</P> | |
| 1612 | 548 |
| 1682 | 549 <P><CODE> alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 550 |
| 1682 | 551 <P>Then run</P> |
| 1612 | 552 |
| 1682 | 553 <P><CODE> depmod -a</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 554 |
| 1682 | 555 <P>Now you have to (re)compile <B>MPlayer</B>, ./configure will detect /dev/mga_vid |
| 556 and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from <B>MPlayer</B> goes by '-vo mga' if | |
| 557 you have matroxfb console, or '-vo xmga' under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</P> | |
| 558 | |
| 2108 | 559 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P> |
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| 2745 | 562 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.8>2.3.1.8. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 563 |
| 564 <P>SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver</P> | |
| 1612 | 565 |
| 1682 | 566 <P>Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver was not |
| 567 updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. Volunteers | |
| 568 needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P> | |
| 1612 | 569 |
| 2745 | 570 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9. 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 571 |
| 1992 | 572 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with |
| 573 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile with | |
| 574 <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 575 |
| 2745 | 576 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.10>2.3.1.10. OpenGL output</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 577 |
| 1682 | 578 <P><B>MPlayer</B> support displaying movies using OpenGL. Unfortunately, not all |
| 579 drivers support this ability. For example the Utah-GLX drivers | |
| 580 (for XFree86 3.3.6) have it, with all cards. | |
| 581 See <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A> | |
| 582 for details about how to install it.</P> | |
| 1612 | 583 |
| 1682 | 584 <P>XFree86(DRI) >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox, and Radeon cards. |
| 585 See <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A> for download, | |
| 586 and installation instructions.</P> | |
| 1612 | 587 |
| 2745 | 588 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.11>2.3.1.11. AAlib - text mode displaying</B></P> |
| 1612 | 589 |
| 1682 | 590 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful |
| 591 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, | |
| 592 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. | |
| 593 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built.</P> | |
| 1612 | 594 |
| 1682 | 595 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 596 <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> |
| 597 <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> | |
| 598 <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> | |
| 599 <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> | |
| 600 <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> | |
| 601 <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> | |
| 602 <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> | |
| 603 <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> | |
| 604 <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 | 605 |
| 1987 | 606 <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 | 607 |
| 1987 | 608 <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> |
| 609 <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> | |
| 610 <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 | 612 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options. |
| 1682 | 613 Here are some important:</P></B></TD><TR> |
| 614 | |
| 1987 | 615 <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> |
| 616 <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> | |
| 617 <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> | |
| 618 <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 | 619 </TABLE></P> |
| 620 | |
| 621 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X | |
| 622 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, | |
| 623 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, | |
| 624 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance | |
| 625 bdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :)</P> | |
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| 1682 | 627 <P>Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames!</P> |
| 1612 | 628 |
| 1682 | 629 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not |
| 630 curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa<terminal>! | |
| 631 That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode. | |
| 1731 | 632 See <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A> for further tuning issues.</P> |
| 1612 | 633 |
| 2471 | 634 |
| 2745 | 635 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.12>2.3.1.12. VESA - output to VESA BIOS</B></P> |
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638 card which has VESA VBE 2.0 compatible BIOS. But exists still one reason of |
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639 developing of this driver - it's multiple troubles with displaying movie on TV.<BR> |
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640 <b>VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Version 3.0 Date: September 16, 1998</b> (Page 70) |
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646 <b>Dual-Controller Designs</b><br> |
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654 information of both controllers, including the combined list of available modes. |
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| 2471 | 661 So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<br> |
| 662 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output | |
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667 <b>What are pluses:</b><BR> |
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668 - You have chances to watch movies <b>if Linux even doesn't know</b> your video hardware.<BR> |
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671 <b>text-mode</b>.<BR> |
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672 - You have chances to get <b>working TV-out</b>. (It's known at least for ATI's cards).<BR> |
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676 - Most important :) You can watch <b>DVD at 320x200</b> if you don't have a powerful CPU.<BR> |
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693 <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 | 694 <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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698 <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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699 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fs -zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>scales userdefined prescaling to fullscreen</TD><TR> |
| 2747 | 700 <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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705 <b>Known problems and workaround:</b><br> |
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706 - If you have installed <b>NLS</b> font on your Linux box and run VESA driver |
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707 from text-mode then after terminating mplayer you will have <b>ROM font</b> loaded instead |
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708 of national. You can load national font again by using <b><i>setsysfont</i></b> utility |
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710 (<b>Hint</b>: The same utility is used for localizating fbdev).<br> |
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711 - 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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712 problem - always use VESA driver only from <b>text-mode</b>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be |
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714 - Often after terminating VESA driver you get <b>black screen</b>. To return your screen |
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716 to your previous console by the same way.<br> |
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717 - To get <b>working TV-out</b> you need have plugged tv-connector in before booting |
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719 </P> |
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724 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no |
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726 slow) software scaling, use the options <CODE>-fs -zoom</CODE>. Most cards have |
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727 hardware scaling support, use the <CODE>-vo xv</CODE> output for them, or |
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728 <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P> |
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730 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support |
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731 hardware acceleration on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue |
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732 coloured window instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in |
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734 SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality !</P> |
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737 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.14>2.3.1.14. Radeon framebuffer (radeon_vid)</A></B></P> |
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738 <P> |
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739 <b>radeon_vid</b> provides support for the <b>BackEnd Scaler</b> on ATI <b>Radeon</b> chipsets. |
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740 It was designed and introduced as analog of <a href="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid</a> driver, so you can use it in the same way!<br> |
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741 But main goal of this driver usage is <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> driver.<br> |
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742 Simply because VESA enables TV-out on ATI's card but Backend scaler is used after |
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743 mode switching. This implementation outputs video stream on both: <b>TV-screen</b> and <b>CRTC</b> |
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744 display simultaneously. (It slightly degrades quality of video output but it's |
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745 much better than nothing). |
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746 Sorry! I couldn't find out any video overlay's related information |
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748 very easy to implement this stuff through reading/writing Radeon ports. |
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749 <br><b>NOTE</b>: XXX_VID technology is perfectly undocumented and maybe in the |
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| 2958 | 753 <P><B>Installation</B></P> |
| 754 | |
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| 2958 | 756 <UL> |
| 757 <LI> | |
| 758 <CODE>cd drivers/radeon/radeon<BR> | |
| 759 make</CODE><BR></LI> | |
| 760 <LI>install the <CODE>radeon_vid.o</CODE> module to your kernelmodules</LI> | |
| 761 <LI>execute the following : <CODE>mknod /dev/radeon_vid c 178 0</CODE></LI> | |
| 762 <LI>add the following at the end of the <CODE>/etc/modules.conf</CODE> file :<BR> | |
| 763 <CODE> alias char-major-178 radeon_vid</CODE> | |
| 764 <LI>run <CODE>depmod -a</CODE></LI> | |
| 765 </UL> | |
| 766 </P> | |
| 767 | |
| 768 <P> | |
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769 <br><b>Usage:</b><BR> |
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770 <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:lvo:/dev/radeon_vid <your options> filename</CODE> |
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| 2958 | 773 <P><B>NOTE</B>: don't use any framebuffers when you plan to use this driver ! Use |
| 774 it only from textmode console.</P> | |
| 775 | |
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776 <P><b>Limitations:</b> Currently it works only with <b>YUY2</b> format, so use the DirectShow codec |
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777 family with it. You should have at least 32MB of video memory.<br> |
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778 <b>Conclusion:</b> I know there are lot of lacks and bugs. So if you are able |
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779 to improve something then simply send me your patches. |
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780 </P> |
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| 2745 | 783 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A>2.3.1.A. TV-out support</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 784 |
| 2745 | 785 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.1>2.3.1.A.1. Matrox cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 786 |
| 2486 | 787 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get TV out working :</P> |
| 2309 | 788 |
| 789 <P> | |
| 2486 | 790 <UL> |
| 791 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from | |
| 792 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on | |
| 793 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as | |
| 794 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I> | |
| 795 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work | |
| 796 on it! The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the | |
| 797 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed | |
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| 2486 | 799 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection |
| 800 enabled.</LI> | |
| 801 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels. | |
| 802 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this. | |
| 803 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation, and | |
| 804 compile them into <B>modules</B>! | |
| 805 <UL> | |
| 806 <LI> | |
| 807 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 808 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 809 <LI> | |
| 810 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter | |
| 811 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 812 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 813 <LI> | |
| 814 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the <B>MPlayer</B> | |
| 815 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console | |
| 816 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI> | |
| 817 <LI>Next, run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you | |
| 818 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should | |
| 819 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. The <B>3.</B> option | |
| 820 will turn on independent display, but then you <B>can't use X</B>! If | |
| 821 the TV picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to | |
| 822 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Use other menu | |
| 823 items randomly and it'll be OK :)</LI> | |
| 824 </UL> | |
| 825 | |
| 826 <P> | |
| 827 Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear, | |
| 828 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P> | |
| 829 | |
| 830 <P> | |
| 831 <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'<BR> | |
| 832 setterm -blank 0</CODE> | |
| 833 </P> | |
| 834 | |
| 835 <P> | |
| 836 You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear | |
| 837 the screen.. To turn the cursor back :<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 838 </P> | |
| 839 | |
| 840 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640 | |
| 841 -screenh 512 <filename></CODE><BR> | |
| 842 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1 !)<BR> | |
| 843 Change 640x512 if you set the resolution to other..<BR> | |
| 844 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv) !</B> | |
| 845 </P> | |
| 846 </LI> | |
| 847 </LI> | |
| 848 </UL> | |
| 2309 | 849 </P> |
| 850 | |
| 851 | |
| 2745 | 852 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.2>2.3.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 2206 | 853 |
| 854 <P> | |
| 855 <b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR> | |
| 856 Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux. | |
| 857 Below is official answer from ATI Inc.: | |
| 858 | |
| 859 <P> | |
| 860 <code> | |
| 861 <i> | |
| 862 <br>> Hello! | |
| 863 <br>> | |
| 864 <br>> On your pages you wrote that you support linux developers. | |
| 865 <br>> Currently I participate with mplayer project (www.mplayerhq.hu) | |
| 866 <br>> I'm interesting with enabling TV-out on Radeon VE chips during | |
| 867 <br>> movie playback. I would be glad to add this feature to radeonfb driver | |
| 868 <br>> (which can be found in CVS tree of mplayer project at main/drivers/radeon). | |
| 869 <br>> Do I have a chance to get any official technical documenation? | |
| 870 </i> | |
| 871 <br>We will not provide TV out related documents due to macrovision concerns. | |
| 872 <br>Also mpeg2 decoding is something that we MAY consider in the future but not | |
| 873 <br>at this current time. This is again due to proprietary and 3rd party | |
| 874 <br>information. | |
| 875 </code> | |
| 876 </P> | |
| 877 | |
| 878 <P>Pity isn't?</P> | |
| 879 | |
| 880 <P> | |
| 881 <code> | |
| 882 <B>Q:What is Macrovision?</B><BR> | |
| 883 A:It's copy protection mechanism.</code> | |
| 884 </P> | |
| 885 | |
| 886 <P>It means that if they open any TV-out related information then | |
| 887 hackers will be able to disable copy protection on their chips. Therefore | |
| 888 we have no chance to get working TV-out on ATI.</P> | |
| 889 | |
| 890 <P>What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux: | |
| 891 <LI><b>ATI Mach64</b> has <i>ImpacTV</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 892 <LI><b>ASIC Radeon VIVO</b> has <i>Rage Theatre</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 893 <LI><b>Radeon VE</b> and <b>Rage PRO LT</b> have <i>ImpacTV2+</i> which is not supported under Linux.</P> | |
| 894 | |
| 895 <P> | |
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| 2745 | 897 movies on their TV</b> through <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA drivers</a>. |
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| 2486 | 901 I should say good words to ATI Inc. too:<br> |
| 902 <b>they produce top quality BIOSes.</b> | |
| 2206 | 903 </P> |
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908 functions of BIOS. ATI cards have enough <b>fast video memory</b> (DIMM or DDR |
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| 2471 | 912 <b>320x200</b> up to <b>1024x768</b>).<br> |
| 2747 | 913 From other side (it's known at least for <b>Radeons</b>) there is <b>DGA</b> |
| 914 mode which is detected automatically and in this case you'll get comparable | |
| 915 with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> drivers speed.<br> | |
| 2486 | 916 Only thing you need to do - <b>have TV connector plugged in before booting your |
| 2471 | 917 PC</b> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure. |
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| 2745 | 921 For detail see <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> sections of this |
| 2471 | 922 documentation. |
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929 Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>. |
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| 1612 | 932 </BODY> |
| 933 </HTML> |