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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" |
| 3583 | 27 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.10>gl2</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, |
| 28 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>OpenGL renderer, multiple textures version</TD><TR> | |
| 29 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 3027 | 30 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.3>dga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, |
| 31 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>X11 DGA extension</TD><TR> | |
| 32 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 33 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.6>fbdev</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 34 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to general framebuffers</TD><TR> | |
| 35 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 36 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.5>svga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 37 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to SVGAlib</TD><TR> | |
| 38 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 39 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.4>sdl</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 40 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> | |
| 1682 | 41 <CODE>1.1.7:</CODE> supports software scaling<BR> |
| 42 <CODE>1.1.8:</CODE> supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen)<BR> | |
| 43 <CODE>1.2.0:</CODE> supports AAlib (-vo aa is very recommended, see below!)</TD><TR> | |
| 3027 | 44 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 45 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.14-TODO>ggi</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, | |
| 46 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>similar to SDL</TD><TR> | |
| 47 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 48 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.11>aa</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 49 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>textmode rendering with AAlib</TD><TR> | |
| 50 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 51 size=2><a href=#2.3.1.12>vesa</a></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 52 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Output to VESA BIOS.</TD><TR> | |
| 3583 | 53 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 54 size=2>directfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 55 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Direct Framebuffer Device</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 56 |
| 3027 | 57 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 58 size=2>Card specific:</B></P></TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 59 |
| 3027 | 60 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, |
| 61 sans-serif" size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>mga</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT | |
| 62 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 hardware | |
| 63 YUV overlay via the mga_vid device</TD><TR> | |
| 64 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 65 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.7>xmga</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 66 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 | |
| 67 window<BR> | |
| 1682 | 68 (<I>Xv emulation on X 3.3.x!</I>)</TD><TR> |
| 3027 | 69 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 70 size=2>syncfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, | |
| 71 sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use | |
| 72 mga/xmga)</TD><TR> | |
| 73 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 74 size=2>3dfx</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 75 size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe | |
| 76 broken)</TD><TR> | |
| 77 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 78 size=2><A HREF=#2.3.1.9>tdfxfb</A></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 79 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx | |
| 80 framebuffer (works!)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 81 |
| 3027 | 82 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" |
| 83 size=2>Special:</B></P></TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 84 |
| 3027 | 85 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, |
| 86 sans-serif" size=2>png</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, | |
| 87 Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PNG files output (use -z switch to set | |
| 88 compression)</TD><TR> | |
| 89 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 90 size=2>pgm</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 91 size=2>PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)</TD><TR> | |
| 92 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 93 size=2>md5</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 94 size=2>MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests)</TD><TR> | |
| 95 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 96 size=2>null</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" | |
| 97 size=2>Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)</TD><TR> | |
| 1682 | 98 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 99 |
| 1682 | 100 <P>NOTE: <I>check the following subsections for details and requirements!</I></P> |
| 1612 | 101 |
| 102 | |
| 2745 | 103 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.1>2.3.1.1. Setting up MTRR</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 104 |
| 1946 | 105 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly, |
| 106 because they can give a big performance boost.</P> | |
| 107 | |
| 108 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>' :</P> | |
| 109 | |
| 110 <P><CODE> | |
| 111 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR> | |
| 112 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR> | |
| 113 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1<BR> | |
| 114 </CODE></P> | |
| 115 | |
| 116 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16Mb memory. I did this from | |
| 117 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P> | |
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119 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the base |
| 1946 | 120 address. |
| 1682 | 121 You have 3 ways to find it:</P> |
| 1612 | 122 |
| 1682 | 123 <P><UL> |
| 124 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example: | |
| 125 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR> | |
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126 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI> |
| 1682 | 127 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): |
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129 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE> |
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130 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE> |
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131 </P> |
| 1682 | 132 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg): |
| 133 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P> | |
| 134 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 135 |
| 1682 | 136 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram |
| 137 size to hexadecimal, or use this table:</P> | |
| 1612 | 138 |
| 1682 | 139 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 140 <TD> </TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH=10%></TD><TD>0x100000</TD><TR> | |
| 141 <TD></TD><TD>2 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x200000</TD><TR> | |
| 142 <TD></TD><TD>4 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x400000</TD><TR> | |
| 143 <TD></TD><TD>8 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x800000</TD><TR> | |
| 144 <TD></TD><TD>16 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x1000000</TD><TR> | |
| 145 <TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD><TR> | |
| 146 </TABLE> | |
| 1612 | 147 |
| 148 | |
| 1682 | 149 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers! |
| 150 For example, for the Matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB | |
| 151 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:</P> | |
| 1612 | 152 |
| 153 | |
| 1682 | 154 <P><CODE> echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 155 |
| 156 | |
| 1682 | 157 <P>Not all CPUs support MTRRs. For example older K6-2's [around 266Mhz, |
| 158 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat /proc/cpuinfo</CODE>' | |
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159 to check it').</P> |
| 1612 | 160 |
| 2745 | 161 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2>2.3.1.2. Xv</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 162 |
| 1682 | 163 <P>Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, you can use your card's hardware YUV routines |
| 164 using the XVideo extension. This is what the option '-vo xv' uses. | |
| 165 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P> | |
| 166 <P><UL> | |
| 167 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo) | |
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168 <LI>Your card actually supports hardware acceleration (modern cards do) |
| 1682 | 169 <LI>X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: |
| 1612 | 170 |
| 1682 | 171 <P><CODE> (II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P> |
| 172 <P>in /var/log/XFree86.0.log</P> | |
| 1612 | 173 |
| 1682 | 174 <P>NOTE: this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is |
| 175 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is loaded!</P> | |
| 1612 | 176 |
| 1682 | 177 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the |
| 178 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar | |
| 179 to this: | |
| 180 <PRE> | |
| 1612 | 181 X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
| 182 screen #0 | |
| 183 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
| 184 number of ports: 1 | |
| 185 port base: 43 | |
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186 operations supported: PutImage |
| 1612 | 187 supported visuals: |
| 188 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
| 189 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
| 190 number of attributes: 5 | |
| 191 (...) | |
| 192 Number of image formats: 7 | |
| 193 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
| 194 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 195 bits per pixel: 16 | |
| 196 number of planes: 1 | |
| 197 type: YUV (packed) | |
| 198 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
| 199 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 200 bits per pixel: 12 | |
| 201 number of planes: 3 | |
| 202 type: YUV (planar) | |
| 203 (...etc...) | |
| 1682 | 204 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 205 |
| 1682 | 206 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be |
| 207 usable with <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> | |
| 1612 | 208 |
| 1682 | 209 <LI>And finally, check if <B>MPlayer</B> was compiled with 'xv' support. |
| 210 ./configure prints this. | |
| 1612 | 211 |
| 1682 | 212 </UL></P> |
| 213 | |
| 2745 | 214 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.1>2.3.1.2.1. 3dfx cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 215 |
| 1682 | 216 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration, |
| 217 it didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have | |
| 218 XFree86 version 4.1.0 or greater, it works ok. Alternatively, you can use | |
| 219 <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">DRI</A> cvs. | |
| 220 If you experience strange effects using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too) | |
| 2745 | 221 and see if it helps. Check the <A HREF="#2.3.1.4">SDL section</A> for details.</P> |
| 1612 | 222 |
| 2745 | 223 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9</A> |
| 1992 | 224 section!</P> |
| 1612 | 225 |
| 2865 | 226 |
| 2745 | 227 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.2>2.3.1.2.2. S3 cards</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 228 |
| 229 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3 | |
| 1988 | 230 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. sell it.</P> |
| 1682 | 231 |
| 3027 | 232 <P><B>NOTE</B>: Savage cards have a slow YV12 image displaying capability (it needs |
| 2883 | 233 to do YV12->YUY2 conversion, because the Savage hardware can't display YV12). |
| 234 So when this documentation says at some point "this has YV12 output use this, | |
| 3027 | 235 it's faster", it's not sure. Try.</P> |
| 2865 | 236 |
| 237 | |
| 2745 | 238 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.3>2.3.1.2.3. nVidia cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 239 |
| 3938 | 240 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux (according to NVidia, this |
| 241 is <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">not true</A>).. You'll have to use the | |
| 3290 | 242 binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's website. The standard XFree86 |
| 1682 | 243 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to nVidia's closed |
| 244 sources/specifications.</P> | |
| 1612 | 245 |
| 3290 | 246 <P>As far as I know the latest XFree86 driver contains XVideo support for |
| 247 Geforce 2 and 3.</P> | |
| 248 | |
| 1682 | 249 <P><UL><LI>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nvidia driver :( |
| 250 Complain to NVidia.</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 251 |
| 252 | |
| 2745 | 253 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 254 |
| 1920 | 255 <P> |
| 2063 | 256 <LI>The GATOS driver (which you should use) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means that decoding speed |
| 1682 | 257 (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try |
| 1920 | 258 disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI> |
| 259 | |
| 260 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version | |
| 3027 | 261 4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can |
| 262 happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and | |
| 263 no libraries or X are needed. Read <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A | |
| 3053 | 264 HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon video overlay</A> sections).</LI> </P> |
| 1612 | 265 |
| 266 | |
| 2745 | 267 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.5>2.3.1.2.5. NeoMagic cards</A></B></P> |
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272 4.2.0, or download a modified driver for 4.0.3 or 4.1.0 from here : |
| 2614 | 273 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver</A> |
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| 3794 | 278 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.6>2.3.1.2.6. Trident cards</A></B></P> |
| 279 | |
| 280 <P>If you want to use xv with a trident card, provided that it doesn't | |
| 281 work with 4.1.0, try the latest cvs of Xfree or wait for Xfree 4.2.0. | |
| 282 The latest cvs adds support for fullscreen xv support with the | |
| 283 Cyberblade XP card.</P> | |
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| 2745 | 285 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3>2.3.1.3. DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 286 |
| 2745 | 287 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.1>2.3.1.3.1. Summary</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 288 |
| 1682 | 289 <P>This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and |
| 290 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).</P> | |
| 1612 | 291 |
| 292 | |
| 2745 | 293 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.2>2.3.1.3.2. What is DGA</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 294 |
| 1682 | 295 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to |
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296 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. |
| 1682 | 297 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into |
| 298 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only | |
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| 1682 | 300 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT |
| 301 recommended!).</P> | |
| 1612 | 302 |
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303 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was |
| 1682 | 304 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.</P> |
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| 1682 | 308 XVidMode extension.</P> |
| 1612 | 309 |
| 1682 | 310 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows |
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312 running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice |
| 1682 | 313 versa. </P> |
| 1612 | 314 |
| 1682 | 315 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the |
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316 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video |
| 1682 | 317 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...</P> |
| 1612 | 318 |
| 319 | |
| 2745 | 320 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.3>2.3.1.3.3. Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 321 |
| 322 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P> | |
| 323 | |
| 324 <P> <CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P> | |
| 325 | |
| 326 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED! | |
| 327 <B>MPlayer</B>'s DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it | |
| 328 with --enable-dga.</P> | |
| 1612 | 329 |
| 1682 | 330 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with |
| 331 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that | |
| 332 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 333 |
| 1682 | 334 <P>Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory. |
| 335 If you want to run it as user, then install <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root:</P> | |
| 1612 | 336 |
| 1682 | 337 <P><CODE> |
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339 chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR> |
| 1686 | 340 chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 341 |
| 342 | |
| 1682 | 343 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P> |
| 1612 | 344 |
| 345 | |
| 1682 | 346 <P><B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> |
| 347 This is a <B>BIG</B> security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 348 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 349 privilegies through suid root mplayer.<BR> | |
| 350 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B></P> | |
| 351 | |
| 352 <P>Now use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:) | |
| 353 You should also try if the '-vo sdl:dga' option works for you! It's much | |
| 354 faster!!!</P> | |
| 355 | |
| 2745 | 356 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.4>2.3.1.3.4. Resolution switching</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 357 |
| 358 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. | |
| 359 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same | |
| 360 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact | |
| 361 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the | |
| 1686 | 362 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in |
| 1682 | 363 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for XFree 4.0.X respectively). |
| 364 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites | |
| 365 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and | |
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366 disables the modelines not suitable for your hardware. You can find |
| 1682 | 367 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at: |
| 368 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P> | |
| 369 <P>See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.</P> | |
| 370 | |
| 2745 | 371 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.5>2.3.1.3.5. DGA & MPlayer</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 372 |
| 1682 | 373 <P>DGA is used in two places with <B>MPlayer</B>: The SDL driver can be made to make |
| 374 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). | |
| 375 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain | |
| 376 how the DGA driver for <B>MPlayer</B> works.</P> | |
| 1612 | 377 |
| 2745 | 378 <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 | 380 <P>The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line. |
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382 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the |
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383 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) - |
| 1682 | 384 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching |
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| 1682 | 386 to scale the image. |
| 387 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode | |
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389 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other |
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| 1682 | 391 file. |
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| 1682 | 395 conversion has to be done.</P> |
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397 <P>If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to |
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398 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which |
| 1682 | 399 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- |
| 400 buffering is enabled or not.</P> | |
| 1612 | 401 |
| 1682 | 402 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in |
| 403 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the | |
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| 1682 | 405 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. |
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406 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new |
| 1682 | 407 video data.</P> |
| 408 | |
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411 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only |
| 1682 | 412 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may |
| 413 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of | |
| 414 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P> | |
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| 2745 | 417 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.7>2.3.1.3.7. Speed issues</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 418 |
| 419 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using | |
| 420 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. | |
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| 1682 | 422 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time |
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424 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your |
| 1682 | 425 box ...</P> |
| 426 | |
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428 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it |
| 1682 | 429 is optimized.</P> |
| 430 | |
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431 <P>If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require |
| 1682 | 432 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P> |
| 1612 | 433 |
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434 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports |
| 1682 | 435 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode.</P> |
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| 1682 | 437 <P>I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 |
| 438 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P> | |
| 1612 | 439 |
| 2745 | 440 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.8>2.3.1.3.8. Known bugs</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 441 |
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442 <P>Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They |
| 1682 | 443 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless |
| 444 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P> | |
| 1612 | 445 |
| 1682 | 446 <P><UL> |
| 447 <LI>with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors | |
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448 <LI>ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing |
| 1682 | 449 using of DGA |
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450 <LI>some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use |
| 1682 | 451 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually) |
| 452 <LI>some drivers simply display strange colors | |
| 453 <LI>some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's | |
| 454 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?) | |
| 455 <LI>some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this | |
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456 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of |
| 1682 | 457 100000x100000 or the like ... |
| 458 <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled | |
| 459 </UL></P> | |
| 460 | |
| 2745 | 461 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.9>2.3.1.3.9. Future work</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 462 |
| 463 <P><UL><LI>use of the new X11 render interface for OSD | |
| 464 <LI>where is my TODO list ???? :-(((</UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 465 |
| 466 | |
| 2745 | 467 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.A>2.3.1.3.A. Some modelines</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 468 |
| 1682 | 469 <PRE> |
| 1612 | 470 Section "Modes" |
| 471 Identifier "Modes[0]" | |
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472 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 |
| 1612 | 473 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425 |
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474 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 |
| 1612 | 475 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan |
| 476 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310 | |
| 477 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 478 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 479 EndSection | |
| 1682 | 480 </PRE> |
| 1612 | 481 |
| 1682 | 482 <P>These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver |
| 483 module.</P> | |
| 1612 | 484 |
| 485 | |
| 2745 | 486 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.B>2.3.1.3.B. Bug Reports</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 487 |
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488 <P>If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file |
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489 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the |
| 1682 | 490 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga:</P> |
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493 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might |
| 1682 | 494 also help. Thanks!</P> |
| 1612 | 495 |
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| 1682 | 497 <P><I>Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)</I></P> |
| 1612 | 498 |
| 499 | |
| 2745 | 500 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.4>2.3.1.4. SDL</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 501 |
| 1682 | 502 <P>Here are some notes about SDL out in <B>MPlayer</B>.</P> |
| 1612 | 503 |
| 504 | |
| 505 | |
| 1682 | 506 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 507 <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> |
| 508 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo sdl:name</TD><TD> </TD><TD> | |
| 509 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib, dga, x11)</TD><TR> | |
| 510 <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 | 511 esd, arts)</TD><TR> |
| 1987 | 512 <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> |
| 513 <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 | 514 |
| 1987 | 515 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>SDL Keys:</B></P></TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 516 |
| 1987 | 517 <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> |
| 518 <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> | |
| 519 <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 | 520 |
| 1682 | 521 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 522 |
| 1682 | 523 <P><B>KNOWN BUGS:</B></P> |
| 524 <P><UL><LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) | |
| 525 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). | |
| 526 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 527 |
| 2745 | 528 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.5>2.3.1.5. SVGAlib</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 529 |
| 530 <P>If you don't have X, you can use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the | |
| 531 -fs switch, since it toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's | |
| 532 SLOOOW now, unless you have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :(</P> | |
| 1612 | 533 |
| 1682 | 534 <P>Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in |
| 535 order for <B>MPlayer</B> build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be | |
| 536 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your | |
| 537 card & monitor.</P> | |
| 1612 | 538 |
| 2745 | 539 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.6>2.3.1.6. Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 540 |
| 541 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure . | |
| 542 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources | |
| 543 (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !</P> | |
| 1612 | 544 |
| 1682 | 545 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
| 546 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) : | |
| 547 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display | |
| 548 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or | |
| 549 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P> | |
| 1612 | 550 |
| 1682 | 551 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P> |
| 1612 | 552 |
| 1682 | 553 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 554 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fb</TD><TD> </TD><TD> |
| 555 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fd0)</TD><TR> | |
| 556 <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> | |
| 557 <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> | |
| 558 <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 | 560 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-monitor_dotclock</TD><TD></TD><TR> |
| 1682 | 561 </TABLE></P> |
| 1612 | 562 |
| 1682 | 563 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P> |
| 1612 | 564 |
| 1682 | 565 <P><CODE> mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 566 |
| 1682 | 567 <P><UL><LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes . Can be |
| 568 used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is supported only | |
| 569 if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format. | |
| 570 Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current, | |
| 2507 | 571 or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI> |
| 1682 | 572 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs option |
| 2507 | 573 isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI> |
| 574 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE><BR> | |
| 575 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR> | |
| 576 To turn the cursor back on : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 577 </UL></P> | |
| 1612 | 578 |
| 1682 | 579 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer, |
| 580 and don't ask for it, since it's not an <B>MPlayer</B> limitation.</P> | |
| 1612 | 581 |
| 2745 | 582 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.7>2.3.1.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 583 |
| 1992 | 584 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler) |
| 1682 | 585 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and |
| 586 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both | |
| 587 framebuffer console and under X.</P> | |
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| 1682 | 589 <P>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:</P> |
| 1612 | 590 |
| 1682 | 591 <P><CODE> cd drivers<BR> |
| 592 make</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 593 |
| 1682 | 594 <P>Then create /dev/mga_vid device:</P> |
| 1612 | 595 |
| 1682 | 596 <P><CODE> mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 597 |
| 1682 | 598 <P>and load the driver with</P> |
| 599 | |
| 600 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 601 |
| 1682 | 602 <P>You should verify the memory size detection using the 'dmesg' command. If |
| 603 it's bad, use the mga_ram_size option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's | |
| 604 memory size in MB:</P> | |
| 1612 | 605 |
| 1682 | 606 <P><CODE> insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 607 |
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| 1682 | 609 at the end of /etc/modules.conf:</P> |
| 1612 | 610 |
| 1682 | 611 <P><CODE> alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 612 |
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| 1682 | 616 <P>Then run</P> |
| 1612 | 617 |
| 1682 | 618 <P><CODE> depmod -a</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 619 |
| 1682 | 620 <P>Now you have to (re)compile <B>MPlayer</B>, ./configure will detect /dev/mga_vid |
| 621 and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from <B>MPlayer</B> goes by '-vo mga' if | |
| 622 you have matroxfb console, or '-vo xmga' under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</P> | |
| 623 | |
| 2108 | 624 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P> |
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| 1612 | 626 |
| 2745 | 627 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.8>2.3.1.8. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 628 |
| 629 <P>SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver</P> | |
| 1612 | 630 |
| 1682 | 631 <P>Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver was not |
| 632 updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. Volunteers | |
| 633 needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P> | |
| 1612 | 634 |
| 2745 | 635 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9. 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 636 |
| 1992 | 637 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with |
| 638 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile with | |
| 639 <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 640 |
| 2745 | 641 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.10>2.3.1.10. OpenGL output</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 642 |
| 1682 | 643 <P><B>MPlayer</B> support displaying movies using OpenGL. Unfortunately, not all |
| 644 drivers support this ability. For example the Utah-GLX drivers | |
| 645 (for XFree86 3.3.6) have it, with all cards. | |
| 646 See <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A> | |
| 647 for details about how to install it.</P> | |
| 1612 | 648 |
| 1682 | 649 <P>XFree86(DRI) >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox, and Radeon cards. |
| 650 See <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A> for download, | |
| 651 and installation instructions.</P> | |
| 1612 | 652 |
| 2745 | 653 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.11>2.3.1.11. AAlib - text mode displaying</B></P> |
| 1612 | 654 |
| 1682 | 655 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful |
| 656 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, | |
| 657 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. | |
| 658 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built.</P> | |
| 1612 | 659 |
| 1682 | 660 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 1987 | 661 <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> |
| 662 <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> | |
| 663 <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> | |
| 664 <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> | |
| 665 <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> | |
| 666 <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> | |
| 667 <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> | |
| 668 <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> | |
| 669 <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 | 670 |
| 1987 | 671 <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 | 672 |
| 1987 | 673 <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> |
| 674 <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> | |
| 675 <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 | 677 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options. |
| 1682 | 678 Here are some important:</P></B></TD><TR> |
| 679 | |
| 1987 | 680 <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> |
| 681 <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> | |
| 682 <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> | |
| 683 <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 | 684 </TABLE></P> |
| 685 | |
| 686 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X | |
| 687 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, | |
| 688 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, | |
| 689 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance | |
| 690 bdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :)</P> | |
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| 1682 | 692 <P>Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames!</P> |
| 1612 | 693 |
| 1682 | 694 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not |
| 695 curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa<terminal>! | |
| 696 That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode. | |
| 1731 | 697 See <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A> for further tuning issues.</P> |
| 1612 | 698 |
| 2471 | 699 |
| 2745 | 700 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.12>2.3.1.12. VESA - output to VESA BIOS</B></P> |
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| 2471 | 726 So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<br> |
| 727 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output | |
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733 - You have chances to watch movies <b>if Linux even doesn't know</b> your video hardware.<BR> |
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736 <b>text-mode</b>.<BR> |
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737 - You have chances to get <b>working TV-out</b>. (It's known at least for ATI's cards).<BR> |
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742 </P> |
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745 <b>What are minuses:</b><BR> |
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746 - It works only on <b>x86 systems</b>.<BR> |
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| 2747 | 749 driver is comparable by speed with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> ones.<BR> |
| 750 | |
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751 - It can be used only by <b>ROOT</b>.<BR> |
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753 - It <b>doesn't use</b> any <b>hardware accelerations</b> (like YUV overlay or hw scaling).<BR> |
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| 3141 | 756 <P>Don't use this driver with <B>GCC 2.96</B> ! It won't work !</P> |
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759 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
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760 <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 | 761 <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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763 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-x, -y</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>set userdefined prescaling</TD><TR> |
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764 <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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766 <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 | 767 <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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769 </P> |
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772 <b>Known problems and workaround:</b><br> |
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774 from text-mode then after terminating mplayer you will have <b>ROM font</b> loaded instead |
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775 of national. You can load national font again by using <b><i>setsysfont</i></b> utility |
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776 from for example Mandrake distribution.<br> |
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778 - 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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779 problem - always use VESA driver only from <b>text-mode</b>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be |
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780 activated anyway and you will need restart your computer.<br> |
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781 - Often after terminating VESA driver you get <b>black screen</b>. To return your screen |
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783 to your previous console by the same way.<br> |
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784 - To get <b>working TV-out</b> you need have plugged tv-connector in before booting |
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786 </P> |
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791 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no |
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793 slow) software scaling, use the options <CODE>-fs -zoom</CODE>. Most cards have |
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794 hardware scaling support, use the <CODE>-vo xv</CODE> output for them, or |
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795 <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P> |
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797 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support |
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798 hardware acceleration on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue |
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799 coloured window instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in |
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801 SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality !</P> |
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802 |
| 3290 | 803 <P>Software scaling is very slow, you better try changing video modes instead. |
| 804 It's very simple. See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.3.A>DGA section's modelines</A>, and | |
| 805 insert them into your XF86Config. | |
| 806 <UL> | |
| 807 <LI>If you have XFree86 4.x.x - use the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option. It will | |
| 808 change to a resolution your movie fits in. If it doesn't :</LI> | |
| 809 <LI>With XFree86 3.x.x - you have to cycle through available resolutions | |
| 810 with the <B>CTRL-ALT-plus</B> and <B>minus</B> keys.</LI> | |
| 811 </UL> | |
| 812 | |
| 813 If you can't find the modes you inserted, browse XFree86's output. Some | |
| 814 drivers can't use low pixelclocks that are needed for low resolution | |
| 815 video modes.</P> | |
| 816 | |
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| 3224 | 818 <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 | 820 <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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821 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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822 But main goal of this driver usage is <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> driver.<br> |
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823 Simply because VESA enables TV-out on ATI's card but Backend scaler is used after |
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824 mode switching. This implementation outputs video stream on both: <b>TV-screen</b> and <b>CRTC</b> |
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825 display simultaneously. (It slightly degrades quality of video output but it's |
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826 much better than nothing). |
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827 Sorry! I couldn't find out any video overlay's related information |
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828 on ATI pages. (I planned to implement it through <b>int 10h</b> calls). But it was |
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829 very easy to implement this stuff through reading/writing Radeon ports. |
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830 <br><b>NOTE</b>: XXX_VID technology is perfectly undocumented and maybe in the |
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831 future this stuff will be fully rewritten. This is the first public release of |
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| 2958 | 834 <P><B>Installation</B></P> |
| 835 | |
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836 <P> |
| 2958 | 837 <UL> |
| 838 <LI> | |
| 3224 | 839 <CODE>cd drivers/radeon<BR> |
| 3268 | 840 make<BR> |
| 841 make install<BR> | |
| 842 make nodes</CODE></LI> | |
| 3267 | 843 <LI>add one of the following at the end of the <CODE>/etc/modules.conf</CODE> file :<BR> |
| 844 <CODE> alias char-major-178 radeon_vid</CODE><BR> | |
| 845 <CODE> alias char-major-178 rage128_vid</CODE></LI> | |
| 2958 | 846 <LI>run <CODE>depmod -a</CODE></LI> |
| 847 </UL> | |
| 848 </P> | |
| 849 | |
| 850 <P> | |
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852 <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:lvo:/dev/radeon_vid <your options> filename</CODE> |
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853 </P> |
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| 3267 | 855 <P>More examples (for hardware deinterlacing, etc) can be found |
| 856 <A HREF="../drivers/radeon/README">here</A>.</P> | |
| 857 | |
| 2958 | 858 <P><B>NOTE</B>: don't use any framebuffers when you plan to use this driver ! Use |
| 859 it only from textmode console.</P> | |
| 860 | |
| 3224 | 861 <P> |
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862 <b>Conclusion:</b> I know there are lot of lacks and bugs. So if you are able |
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863 to improve something then simply send me your patches. |
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864 </P> |
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| 2745 | 867 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A>2.3.1.A. TV-out support</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 868 |
| 2745 | 869 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.1>2.3.1.A.1. Matrox cards</A></B></P> |
| 1612 | 870 |
| 2486 | 871 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get TV out working :</P> |
| 2309 | 872 |
| 873 <P> | |
| 2486 | 874 <UL> |
| 875 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from | |
| 876 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on | |
| 877 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as | |
| 878 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I> | |
| 879 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work | |
| 880 on it! The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the | |
| 881 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed | |
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| 2486 | 883 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection |
| 884 enabled.</LI> | |
| 885 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels. | |
| 886 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this. | |
| 3030 | 887 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except |
| 888 MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>! | |
| 2486 | 889 <UL> |
| 890 <LI> | |
| 891 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 892 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 893 <LI> | |
| 894 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter | |
| 895 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 896 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 897 <LI> | |
| 898 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the <B>MPlayer</B> | |
| 899 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console | |
| 900 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI> | |
| 901 <LI>Next, run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you | |
| 902 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should | |
| 903 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. The <B>3.</B> option | |
| 904 will turn on independent display, but then you <B>can't use X</B>! If | |
| 3030 | 905 the TV (PAL !) picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to |
| 2486 | 906 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Use other menu |
| 907 items randomly and it'll be OK :)</LI> | |
| 908 </UL> | |
| 909 | |
| 910 <P> | |
| 911 Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear, | |
| 912 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P> | |
| 913 | |
| 914 <P> | |
| 915 <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'<BR> | |
| 916 setterm -blank 0</CODE> | |
| 917 </P> | |
| 918 | |
| 919 <P> | |
| 920 You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear | |
| 921 the screen.. To turn the cursor back :<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 922 </P> | |
| 923 | |
| 924 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640 | |
| 925 -screenh 512 <filename></CODE><BR> | |
| 926 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1 !)<BR> | |
| 927 Change 640x512 if you set the resolution to other..<BR> | |
| 928 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv) !</B> | |
| 929 </P> | |
| 930 </LI> | |
| 931 </LI> | |
| 932 </UL> | |
| 2309 | 933 </P> |
| 934 | |
| 935 | |
| 2745 | 936 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.2>2.3.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P> |
| 2206 | 937 |
| 938 <P> | |
| 939 <b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR> | |
| 940 Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux. | |
| 941 Below is official answer from ATI Inc.: | |
| 942 | |
| 943 <P> | |
| 944 <code> | |
| 945 <i> | |
| 946 <br>> Hello! | |
| 947 <br>> | |
| 948 <br>> On your pages you wrote that you support linux developers. | |
| 949 <br>> Currently I participate with mplayer project (www.mplayerhq.hu) | |
| 950 <br>> I'm interesting with enabling TV-out on Radeon VE chips during | |
| 951 <br>> movie playback. I would be glad to add this feature to radeonfb driver | |
| 952 <br>> (which can be found in CVS tree of mplayer project at main/drivers/radeon). | |
| 953 <br>> Do I have a chance to get any official technical documenation? | |
| 954 </i> | |
| 955 <br>We will not provide TV out related documents due to macrovision concerns. | |
| 956 <br>Also mpeg2 decoding is something that we MAY consider in the future but not | |
| 957 <br>at this current time. This is again due to proprietary and 3rd party | |
| 958 <br>information. | |
| 959 </code> | |
| 960 </P> | |
| 961 | |
| 962 <P>Pity isn't?</P> | |
| 963 | |
| 964 <P> | |
| 965 <code> | |
| 966 <B>Q:What is Macrovision?</B><BR> | |
| 967 A:It's copy protection mechanism.</code> | |
| 968 </P> | |
| 969 | |
| 970 <P>It means that if they open any TV-out related information then | |
| 971 hackers will be able to disable copy protection on their chips. Therefore | |
| 972 we have no chance to get working TV-out on ATI.</P> | |
| 973 | |
| 974 <P>What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux: | |
| 975 <LI><b>ATI Mach64</b> has <i>ImpacTV</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 976 <LI><b>ASIC Radeon VIVO</b> has <i>Rage Theatre</i> which is supported by gatos. | |
| 3027 | 977 <LI><b>Radeon VE</b> and <b>Rage PRO LT</b> have <i>ImpacTV2+</i> which is not supported under Linux. |
| 978 But with <B>MPlayer</B> you get <B>full hardware acceleration</B> and <B>TV out</B> | |
| 979 for Radeons ! | |
| 980 Check <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon | |
| 981 acceleration</A> sections.</P> | |
| 2206 | 982 |
| 983 <P> | |
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| 2745 | 985 movies on their TV</b> through <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA drivers</a>. |
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| 2486 | 989 I should say good words to ATI Inc. too:<br> |
| 990 <b>they produce top quality BIOSes.</b> | |
| 2206 | 991 </P> |
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| 2471 | 1000 <b>320x200</b> up to <b>1024x768</b>).<br> |
| 2747 | 1001 From other side (it's known at least for <b>Radeons</b>) there is <b>DGA</b> |
| 1002 mode which is detected automatically and in this case you'll get comparable | |
| 1003 with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> drivers speed.<br> | |
| 2486 | 1004 Only thing you need to do - <b>have TV connector plugged in before booting your |
| 2471 | 1005 PC</b> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure. |
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| 2745 | 1009 For detail see <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> sections of this |
| 2471 | 1010 documentation. |
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| 1021 </HTML> |