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15 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1>2.3.1. Video output devices</A></B></P>
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18 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.1>2.3.1.1. Setting up MTRR</A></B></P>
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20 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly,
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21 because they can give a big performance boost.</P>
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23 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>' :</P>
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25 <P><CODE>
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26 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR>
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27 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR>
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28 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1<BR>
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29 </CODE></P>
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31 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16Mb memory. I did this from
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32 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P>
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34 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the base
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35 address.
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36 You have 3 ways to find it:</P>
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38 <P><UL>
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39 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example:
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40 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR>
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41 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI>
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42 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command):
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43 <P>
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44 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE>
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45 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE>
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46 </P>
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47 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg):
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48 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P>
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49 </UL></P>
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51 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram
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52 size to hexadecimal, or use this table:</P>
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55 <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH=10%></TD><TD>0x100000</TD><TR>
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56 <TD></TD><TD>2 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x200000</TD><TR>
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57 <TD></TD><TD>4 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x400000</TD><TR>
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58 <TD></TD><TD>8 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x800000</TD><TR>
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59 <TD></TD><TD>16 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x1000000</TD><TR>
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60 <TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD><TR>
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61 </TABLE>
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64 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers!
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65 For example, for the Matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB
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66 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:</P>
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69 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" &gt;| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P>
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72 <P>Not all CPUs support MTRRs. For example older K6-2's [around 266Mhz,
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73 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat /proc/cpuinfo</CODE>'
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74 to check it').</P>
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76 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2>2.3.1.2. Xv</A></B></P>
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78 <P>Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, you can use your card's hardware YUV routines
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79 using the XVideo extension. This is what the option '-vo xv' uses. Also,
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80 this is driver supports adjusting brightness/contrast/hue/etc (unless you use
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81 the old, slow DirectShow DivX codec, which supports it everywhere), see the
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82 manpage.</P>
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84 <P>In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P>
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85 <P><UL>
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86 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo)
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87 <LI>Your card actually supports hardware acceleration (modern cards do)
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88 <LI>X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this:
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90 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;(II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P>
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91 <P>in /var/log/XFree86.0.log</P>
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93 <P>NOTE: this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is
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94 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is loaded!</P>
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96 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the
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97 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar
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98 to this:
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99 <PRE>
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100 X-Video Extension version 2.2
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101 screen #0
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102 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine"
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103 number of ports: 1
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104 port base: 43
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105 operations supported: PutImage
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106 supported visuals:
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107 depth 16, visualID 0x22
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108 depth 16, visualID 0x23
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109 number of attributes: 5
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110 (...)
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111 Number of image formats: 7
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112 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
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113 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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114 bits per pixel: 16
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115 number of planes: 1
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116 type: YUV (packed)
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117 id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
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118 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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119 bits per pixel: 12
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120 number of planes: 3
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121 type: YUV (planar)
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122 (...etc...)
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123 </PRE>
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125 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be
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126 usable with <B>MPlayer</B>.</P>
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127
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128 <LI>And finally, check if <B>MPlayer</B> was compiled with 'xv' support.
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129 ./configure prints this.
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131 </UL></P>
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133 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.1>2.3.1.2.1. 3dfx cards</A></B></P>
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135 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration,
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136 it didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have
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137 XFree86 version 4.2.0 or greater, it works ok with YV12 and YUY2. Previous
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138 versions, including 4.1.0 <B>crashes with YV12</B>!
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139 If you experience strange effects using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too)
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140 and see if it helps. Check the <A HREF="#2.3.1.4">SDL section</A> for details.</P>
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142 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9</A>
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143 section!</P>
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146 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.2>2.3.1.2.2. S3 cards</A></B></P>
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148 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3
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149 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. there is
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150 xv support, but the card itself is very slow, so you better sell it.</P>
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152 <P><B>NOTE</B>: Savage cards have a slow YV12 image displaying capability (it needs
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153 to do YV12->YUY2 conversion, because the Savage hardware can't display YV12).
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155 it's faster", it's not sure. Try <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/Savage-driver/savage_drv.o.mmx2.bz2">this
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159 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.3>2.3.1.2.3. nVidia cards</A></B></P>
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161 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux (according to NVidia, this
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163 binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's website. The standard XFree86
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164 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to nVidia's closed
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165 sources/specifications.</P>
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167 <P>As far as I know the latest XFree86 driver contains XVideo support for
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168 Geforce 2 and 3.</P>
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170 <P><UL><LI>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nvidia driver :(
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171 Complain to NVidia.</UL></P>
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174 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.4>2.3.1.2.4. ATI cards</A></B></P>
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177 <LI>The <A HREF="http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos">GATOS driver</A> (which you
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178 should use, unless you have Rage128 or Radeon) has VSYNC enabled by default. It
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179 means that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If
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180 playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh rate to
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181 n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI>
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183 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version
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184 4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with <B>MPlayer</B> you can
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185 happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and
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186 no libraries or X are needed. Read <A HREF=#2.3.1.15>Vidix</A> section.</LI>
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188 </P>
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191 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.2.5>2.3.1.2.5. NeoMagic cards</A></B></P>
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193 <P>These cards can be found in many laptops. Unfortunately, the driver in
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194 X 4.2.0 can't do Xv, but we have a modified, Xv-capable driver for you.
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195 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver/neomagic_drv.o.4.2.0.bz2">Download from here</A>.
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196 Driver provided by Stefan Seyfried.</P>
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198 <P>To allow playback of DVD sized content change your XF86Config like this :</P>
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199
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200 <P>
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201 Section "Device"<BR>
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202 &nbsp; &nbsp; <I>[...]</I><BR>
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203 &nbsp; &nbsp; Driver "neomagic"<BR>
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204 &nbsp; &nbsp; <B>Option "OverlayMem" "829440"</B><BR>
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205 &nbsp; &nbsp; <I>[...]</I><BR>
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206 EndSection
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207 </P>
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212 <P>If you want to use xv with a trident card, provided that it doesn't
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215 Cyberblade XP card.</P>
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217 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3>2.3.1.3. DGA</A></B></P>
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219 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.1>2.3.1.3.1. Summary</A></B></P>
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221 <P>This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and
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222 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).</P>
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225 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.2>2.3.1.3.2. What is DGA</A></B></P>
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227 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to
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228 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory.
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229 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
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230 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only
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231 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in
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232 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT
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233 recommended!).</P>
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235 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was
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236 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.</P>
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238 <P>DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For
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239 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the
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240 XVidMode extension.</P>
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242 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows
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243 switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically
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244 running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice
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245 versa. </P>
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247 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the
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248 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video
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249 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...</P>
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252 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.3>2.3.1.3.3. Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></B></P>
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254 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P>
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256 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P>
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258 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED!
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259 <B>MPlayer</B>'s DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it
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260 with --enable-dga.</P>
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262 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with
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263 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that
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264 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :(</P>
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266 <P>Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory.
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267 If you want to run it as user, then install <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root:</P>
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270 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR>
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271 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR>
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272 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P>
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275 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P>
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278 <P><B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR>
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279 This is a <B>BIG</B> security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer
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280 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root
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281 privilegies through suid root mplayer.<BR>
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282 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B></P>
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283
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284 <P>Now use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:)
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285 You should also try if the '-vo sdl:dga' option works for you! It's much
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286 faster!!!</P>
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287
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288 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.4>2.3.1.3.4. Resolution switching</A></B></P>
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289
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290 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal.
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291 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same
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292 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact
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293 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the
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294 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in
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295 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for XFree 4.0.X respectively).
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296 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites
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297 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and
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298 disables the modelines not suitable for your hardware. You can find
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299 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at:
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300 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P>
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301 <P>See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.</P>
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302
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303 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.5>2.3.1.3.5. DGA &amp; MPlayer</A></B></P>
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304
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305 <P>DGA is used in two places with <B>MPlayer</B>: The SDL driver can be made to make
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306 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga).
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307 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain
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308 how the DGA driver for <B>MPlayer</B> works.</P>
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309
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310 <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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311
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312 <P>The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line.
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313 The default behaviour is to switch to a resolution matching the original
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314 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the
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315 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) -
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316 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching
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317 the video mode, thus refraining to use a single additional cycle of your CPU
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318 to scale the image.
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319 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode
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320 matching closest the resolution you specify by -x and -y.
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321 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other
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322 things, a list of all resolutions supported by your current XF86-Config
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323 file.
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324 Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp
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325 option. Valid depths are 15, 16, 24 and 32. It depends on your hardware
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326 whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow)
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327 conversion has to be done.</P>
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328
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329 <P>If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to
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330 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which
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331 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double-
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332 buffering is enabled or not.</P>
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333
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334 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in
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335 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the
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336 next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory
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337 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there.
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338 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new
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339 video data.</P>
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340
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341 Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be
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342 disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable
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343 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only
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344 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may
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345 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of
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346 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P>
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347
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348
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349 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.7>2.3.1.3.7. Speed issues</A></B></P>
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350
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351 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using
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352 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image.
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353 The percentage speed values printed by mplayer have to be interpreted with
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354 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time
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355 used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a
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356 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your
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357 box ...</P>
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358
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359 <P>Generally spoken, the speedup done by using DGA against 'normal' use of X11
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360 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it
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361 is optimized.</P>
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362
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363 <P>If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require
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364 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P>
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365
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366 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports
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367 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode.</P>
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368
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369 <P>I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2
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370 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P>
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371
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372 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.8>2.3.1.3.8. Known bugs</A></B></P>
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373
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374 <P>Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They
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375 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless
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376 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P>
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377
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378 <P><UL>
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379 <LI>with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors
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380 <LI>ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing
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381 using of DGA
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382 <LI>some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use
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383 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually)
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384 <LI>some drivers simply display strange colors
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385 <LI>some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's
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386 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?)
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387 <LI>some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this
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388 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of
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389 100000x100000 or the like ...
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390 <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled
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391 </UL></P>
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392
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393 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.9>2.3.1.3.9. Future work</A></B></P>
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394
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395 <P><UL><LI>use of the new X11 render interface for OSD
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396 <LI>where is my TODO list ???? :-(((</UL></P>
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398
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399 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.A>2.3.1.3.A. Some modelines</A></B></P>
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400
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401 <PRE>
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402 Section "Modes"
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403 Identifier "Modes[0]"
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404 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
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405 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425
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406 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
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407 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan
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408 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310
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409 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan
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410 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan
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411 EndSection
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412 </PRE>
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414 <P>These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver
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415 module.</P>
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417
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418 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.3.B>2.3.1.3.B. Bug Reports</A></B></P>
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420 <P>If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file
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421 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the
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422 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga:</P>
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423
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424 <P>Please do also include the version of X11 you are using, the graphics card
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425 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might
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426 also help. Thanks!</P>
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427
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428
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429 <P><I>Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)</I></P>
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431
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432 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.4>2.3.1.4. SDL</A></B></P>
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434 <P>SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) is basically an unified video/audio
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435 interface. Programs that use it know only about SDL, and not about what video
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436 or audio driver does SDL actually use. For example a Doom port using SDL can
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437 run on svgalib, aalib, X, fbdev, and others, you only have to specify the
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438 (for example) video driver to use with the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment
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439 variable. Well, in theory.</P>
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440
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441 <P>With <B>MPlayer</B>, we used its X11 driver's software scaler ability for
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442 cards/drivers that doesn't support XVideo, until we made our own (faster,
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443 nicer) software scaler. Also we used its aalib output, but now we have ours
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444 which is more comfortable. Its DGA mode was better than ours, until
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445 recently. Get it now? :)</P>
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446
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447 <P>It also helps with some buggy drivers/cards if the video is jerky
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448 (not slow system problem), or audio is lagging.</P>
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449
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450 <P>SDL video output supports displaying subtitles under the movie, on the (if
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451 present) black bar.</P>
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452
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453 <P>Here are some notes about SDL out in <B>MPlayer</B>.</P>
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456
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457 <P><TABLE BORDER=0>
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458 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">There are several commandline switches for SDL:</B></P></TD><TR>
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459 <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-vo sdl:name</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>
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460 <FONT CLASS="text">specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib, dga, x11)</TD><TR>
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461 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-ao sdl:name</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">specifies sdl audio driver to use (ie. dsp,
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462 esd, arts)</TD><TR>
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463 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-noxv</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">disables Xvideo hardware acceleration</TD><TR>
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464 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-forcexv</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">tries to force Xvideo acceleration</TD><TR>
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465
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466 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">SDL Keys:</B></P></TD><TR>
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468 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">F</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggles fullscreen/windowed mode</TD><TR>
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469 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">C</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">cycles available fullscreen modes</TD><TR>
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470 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">W/S</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">mappings for * and / (mixer control)</TD><TR>
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471
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472 </TABLE></P>
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473
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474 <P><B>KNOWN BUGS:</B></P>
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475 <P><UL><LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !)
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476 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1).
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477 </UL></P>
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478
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479 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.5>2.3.1.5. SVGAlib</A></B></P>
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481 <P>If you don't have X, you can use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the
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482 -fs switch, since it toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's
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483 SLOOOW now, unless you have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :(</P>
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485 <P>Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in
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486 order for <B>MPlayer</B> build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be
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487 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your
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488 card &amp; monitor.</P>
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489
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490 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.6>2.3.1.6. Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></B></P>
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491
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492 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure .
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493 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources
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494 (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !</P>
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496 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI
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497 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) :
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498 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display
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499 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or
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500 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P>
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501
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502 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P>
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504 <P><TABLE BORDER=0>
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505 <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-fb</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>
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506 <FONT CLASS="text">specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fb0)</TD><TR>
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507 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-fbmode</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">mode name to use (according to /etc/fb.modes)</TD><TR>
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508 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-fbmodeconfig</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> config file of modes (default /etc/fb.modes)</TD><TR>
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509 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-monitor_hfreq</TD><TD></TD><TD ROWSPAN=3><FONT CLASS="text">IMPORTANT values, see example.conf</TD><TR>
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510 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-monitor_vfreq</TD><TD></TD><TR>
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511 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-monitor_dotclock</TD><TD></TD><TR>
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512 </TABLE></P>
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513
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514 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P>
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516 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P>
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518 <P><UL><LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes . Can be
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519 used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is supported only
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520 if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format.
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521 Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current,
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522 or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI>
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523 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs option
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524 isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI>
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525 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE>
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526 or <CODE>setterm -cursor off</CODE><BR>
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527 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR>
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528 To turn the cursor back on : <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE>
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529 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE>
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530 </UL></P>
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532 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer,
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533 and don't ask for it, since it's not an <B>MPlayer</B> limitation.</P>
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535 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.7>2.3.1.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></B></P>
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537 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler)
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538 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and
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539 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
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540 framebuffer console and under X.</P>
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542 <P><B>WARNING</B>: on non-Linux systems, use <A HREF=#2.3.1.15>Vidix</A> for
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543 mga_vid !!!</P>
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545 <P>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:</P>
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547 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cd drivers<BR>
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548 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;make</CODE></P>
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550 <P>Then create /dev/mga_vid device:</P>
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552 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P>
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554 <P>and load the driver with</P>
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556 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P>
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558 <P>You should verify the memory size detection using the 'dmesg' command. If
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559 it's bad, use the mga_ram_size option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's
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560 memory size in MB:</P>
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561
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562 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P>
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564 <P>To make it load/unload automatically when needed, first insert the following line
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565 at the end of /etc/modules.conf:</P>
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566
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567 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P>
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569 <P>Then copy the <CODE>mga_vid.o</CODE> module to the appropriate place under
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570 <CODE>/lib/modules/&lt;kernel version&gt;/somewhere</CODE>.</P>
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572 <P>Then run</P>
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573
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574 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;depmod -a</CODE></P>
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575
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576 <P>Now you have to (re)compile <B>MPlayer</B>, ./configure will detect /dev/mga_vid
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577 and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from <B>MPlayer</B> goes by '-vo mga' if
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578 you have matroxfb console, or '-vo xmga' under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</P>
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579
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580 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P>
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582 <P>The <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> device file can be read (for example by
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583 <CODE>cat /dev/mga_vid</CODE>) for some info, and written for brightness
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584 change : <CODE>echo "brightness=120" > /dev/mga_vid</CODE></P>
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586
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587 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.8>2.3.1.8. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></B></P>
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589 <P>SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver</P>
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591 <P>Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver was not
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592 updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. Volunteers
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593 needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P>
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594
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595 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.9>2.3.1.9. 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></B></P>
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597 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with
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598 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile with
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599 <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P>
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601 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.10>2.3.1.10. OpenGL output</A></B></P>
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602
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603 <P><B>MPlayer</B> support displaying movies using OpenGL. Unfortunately, not all
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604 drivers support this ability. For example the Utah-GLX drivers
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605 (for XFree86 3.3.6) have it, with all cards.
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606 See <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A>
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607 for details about how to install it.</P>
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608
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609 <P>XFree86(DRI) >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox, and Radeon cards.
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610 See <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A> for download,
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611 and installation instructions.</P>
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612
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613 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.11>2.3.1.11. AAlib - text mode displaying</B></P>
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614
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615 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful
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616 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom,
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617 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it.
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618 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built.</P>
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619
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620 <P><TABLE BORDER=0>
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621 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options:</B></P></TD><TR>
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622 <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">1</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">decrease contrast</TD><TR>
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623 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">increase contrast</TD><TR>
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624 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">3</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">decrease brightness</TD><TR>
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625 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">increase brightness</TD><TR>
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626 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">5</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">switch fast rendering on/off</TD><TR>
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627 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">set dithering mode (none, error distribution, floyd steinberg)</TD><TR>
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628 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">7</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">invert image</TD><TR>
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629 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">a</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggles between aa and mplayer control)</TD><TR>
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631 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">The following command line options can be used:</B></P></TD><TR>
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633 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aaosdcolor=V</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change osd color</TD><TR>
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634 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aasubcolor=V</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change subtitle color</TD><TR>
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635 <TD COLSPAN=3></TD><TD><P><I><FONT CLASS="text">where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/boldfont, 4/reverse, 5/special)</P></TD><TR>
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637 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options.
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638 Here are some important:</P></B></TD><TR>
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639
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640 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aadriver</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, linux)</TD><TR>
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641 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aaextended</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">use all 256 characters</TD><TR>
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642 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aaeight</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">use eight bit ascii</TD><TR>
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643 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-aahelp</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">prints out all aalib options</TD><TR>
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644 </TABLE></P>
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645
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646 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X
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647 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard,
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648 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode,
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649 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance
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650 bdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :)</P>
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651
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652 <P>Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames!</P>
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654 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not
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655 curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa&lt;terminal&gt;!
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656 That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode.
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657 See <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A> for further tuning issues.</P>
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659
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660 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.12>2.3.1.12. VESA - output to VESA BIOS</B></P>
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661 <P>
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662 This driver was designed and introduced as <b>generic driver</b> for any video
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663 card which has VESA VBE 2.0 compatible BIOS. But exists still one reason of
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664 developing of this driver - it's multiple troubles with displaying movie on TV.<BR>
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665 <b>VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Version 3.0 Date: September 16, 1998</b> (Page 70)
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666 says:
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667 </P>
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668
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669 <P>
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670 <code><i>
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671 <b>Dual-Controller Designs</b><br>
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672 VBE 3.0 supports the dual-controller design by assuming that since both
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673 controllers are typically provided by the same OEM, under control of a
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674 single BIOS ROM on the same graphics card, it is possible to hide the fact
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675 that two controllers are indeed present from the application. This has the
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676 limitation of preventing simultaneous use of the independent controllers,
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677 but allows applications released before VBE 3.0 to operate normally. The
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678 VBE Function 00h (Return Controller Information) returns the combined
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679 information of both controllers, including the combined list of available modes.
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680 When the application selects a mode, the appropriate controller is activated.
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681 Each of the remaining VBE functions then operates on the active controller.
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682 </i></code>
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683 </P>
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684
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685 <P>
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686 So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<br>
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687 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output
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688 at least.)
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689 </P>
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690
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691 <P>
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692 <b>What are pluses:</b><BR>
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693 - You have chances to watch movies <b>if Linux even doesn't know</b> your video hardware.<BR>
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694 - You don't need to have installed any graphics' related things on your Linux
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695 (like X11 (aka XFree86), fbdev and so on). This driver can be run from
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696 <b>text-mode</b>.<BR>
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697 - You have chances to get <b>working TV-out</b>. (It's known at least for ATI's cards).<BR>
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698 - This driver calls <b>int 10h</b> handler thus it's not an emulator - it
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699 calls <b>real</b> things of <b>real</b> BIOS in <b>real</b>-mode. (Finely -
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700 in vm86 mode).<BR>
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701 - Most important :) You can watch <b>DVD at 320x200</b> if you don't have a powerful CPU.<BR>
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702 </P>
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703
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704 <P>
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705 <b>What are minuses:</b><BR>
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706 - It works only on <b>x86 systems</b>.<BR>
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707 - <b>It's the slowest driver</b> from all the available ones for MPlayer.<BR>
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708 (But only if your card doesn't support <b>DGA mode</b> - otherwise this
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709 driver is comparable by speed with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> ones.<BR>
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710
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711 - It can be used only by <b>ROOT</b>.<BR>
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712 - Currently it's available only for <b>Linux</b>.<BR>
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713 - It <b>doesn't use</b> any <b>hardware accelerations</b> (like YUV overlay or hw scaling).<BR>
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714 </P>
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715
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716 <P>Don't use this driver with <B>GCC 2.96</B> ! It won't work !</P>
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717
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718 <P>
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719 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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720 <TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT CLASS="text">These switches of command line currently are available for VESA:</B></P></TD><TR>
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721 <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-vo vesa:opts</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">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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722 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-screenw, -screenh, -bpp</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">force userdefined mode</TD><TR>
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723 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-x, -y</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">set userdefined prescaling</TD><TR>
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724 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">enables userdefined prescaling</TD><TR>
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725 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-fs</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">scales image to fullscreen</TD><TR>
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726 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-fs -zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">scales userdefined prescaling to fullscreen</TD><TR>
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727 <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">-double</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">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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728 </TABLE>
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729 </P>
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730
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731 <P>
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732 <b>Known problems and workaround:</b><br>
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733 - If you have installed <b>NLS</b> font on your Linux box and run VESA driver
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734 from text-mode then after terminating mplayer you will have <b>ROM font</b> loaded instead
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735 of national. You can load national font again by using <b><i>setsysfont</i></b> utility
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736 from for example Mandrake distribution.<br>
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737 (<b>Hint</b>: The same utility is used for localizating fbdev).<br>
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738 - 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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739 problem - always use VESA driver only from <b>text-mode</b>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be
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740 activated anyway and you will need restart your computer.<br>
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741 - Often after terminating VESA driver you get <b>black screen</b>. To return your screen
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742 to original state - simply switch to other console (by pressing <b>Alt-Fx</b>) then switch
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743 to your previous console by the same way.<br>
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744 - To get <b>working TV-out</b> you need have plugged tv-connector in before booting
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745 your PC since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure.
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746 </P>
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747
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748
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749 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.13>2.3.1.13. X11</B></P>
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750
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751 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no
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752 hardware acceleration at all. Supports (MMX/3DNow/SSE accelerated, but still
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753 slow) software scaling, use the options <CODE>-fs -zoom</CODE>. Most cards have
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754 hardware scaling support, use the <CODE>-vo xv</CODE> output for them, or
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755 <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P>
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756
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757 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support
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758 hardware acceleration on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue
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759 coloured window instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in
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760 handy, but you need powerful CPU to use software scaling. Don't use the
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761 SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality !</P>
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762
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763 <P>Software scaling is very slow, you better try changing video modes instead.
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764 It's very simple. See the <A HREF=#2.3.1.3.A>DGA section's modelines</A>, and
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765 insert them into your XF86Config.
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766 <UL>
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767 <LI>If you have XFree86 4.x.x - use the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option. It will
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768 change to a resolution your movie fits in. If it doesn't :</LI>
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769 <LI>With XFree86 3.x.x - you have to cycle through available resolutions
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770 with the <B>CTRL-ALT-plus</B> and <B>minus</B> keys.</LI>
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771 </UL>
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772
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773 If you can't find the modes you inserted, browse XFree86's output. Some
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774 drivers can't use low pixelclocks that are needed for low resolution
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775 video modes.</P>
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776
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777
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778 <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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779
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780 <P>This section is OBSOLETED ! Use Vidix !</P>
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781
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782
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783 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.15>2.3.1.15. VIDIX</A></B></P>
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784
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785 <P><B><I>WHAT IS VIDIX</I></B></P>
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786
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787 <P>VIDIX is the abbreviation for <b>VID</b>eo <b>I</b>nterface for
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788 *ni<b>X</b>.<BR>
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789 VIDIX was designed and introduced as an interface for fast user-space drivers
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790 providing <b>DGA</b> everywhere where it's possible (<b>unlike X11</b>). I
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791 hope that these drivers will be as portable as X11 (<b>not only on
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792 *nix</b>).<BR>
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793 What is it:
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794 <LI>It's a portable successor of mga_vid technology, but it's located in
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795 user-space.</LI>
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796 <LI>Unlike X11 it provides DGA everywhere it's possible</LI>
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797 <LI>Unlike v4l it provides interface for video playback</LI>
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798 <LI>Unlike linux's drivers it uses mathematics library</LI>
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799 </P>
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800
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801 <P>I can tell you in bold capital letters :<BR>
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802 <b>VIDIX PROVIDES DIRECT GRAPHICS ACCESS TO BES YUV MEMORY.</b>
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803 </P>
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804
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805 <P><i>Well (it's in my todo) - implement DGA to MPEG2 decoder.</i></P>
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806
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807 <P>This interface was designed as an attempt to fit existing video acceleration
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808 interfaces (known as mga_vid, mga_yuv, radeon_vid) into a fixed scheme. It
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809 provides highlevel interface to chips which are known as BES (BackEnd
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810 scalers) or OV (Video Overlays). It doesn't provide lowlevel interface to
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811 things which are known as graphics servers. (I don't want to compete with X11
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812 team in graphics mode switching). I.e. main goal of this interface is to
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813 provide maximal speed of video playback but not putting video signal on
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814 screen of your TV or on tape of your VCR. Although these things are also very
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815 significant - it's perfectly other task. (However I guess that it would be
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816 possible to implement something like mini-X (don't mix it with Minix ;) in
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817 the future, if some number of volunteers will be found.
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818 </P>
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819
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820 <P><B><I>USAGE</I></B></P>
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821
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822 <P>
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823 <LI>You can use standalone video output driver: <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE><BR>
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824 This driver was developed as X11's front end to VIDIX technology. It
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825 requires XServer and can work only under XServer.</LI>
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826 <LI>You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output
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827 drivers, such as:<BR>
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828 <CODE>-vo vesa:vidix</CODE> and <CODE>-vo fbdev:vidix</CODE></LI>
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829 Indeed it doesn't matter which video output driver is used with <b>VIDIX</b>.
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830 </P>
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832 <P><B><I>REQUIREMENTS</I></B></P>
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834 <P>
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835 <LI>video card should be in graphics mode (I write <b>should</b> simply
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836 because I tested it in text mode - it works but has awful output ;) Use
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837 AAlib for that).<BR>
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838 <I>Note: Everyone can try this trick by commenting out mode switching in
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839 vo_vesa driver.</I></LI>
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840 <LI><B>MPlayer</B>'s video output driver should know active video mode and be
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841 able to tell to VIDIX subdevice some video characteristics of server.</LI>
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842 I hope that probably every video output driver of <B>MPlayer</B> will
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843 recognize <CODE>:vidix</CODE> subdevice.
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844 </P>
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845
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846 <P><B><I>USAGE METHODS</I></B></P>
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847
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848 <P>When VIDIX is used as <b>subdevice</b> (<CODE>-vo vesa:vidix</CODE>) then
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849 video mode configuration is performed by video output device
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850 (<b>vo_server</b> in short). Therefore you can pass into command line of
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851 <B>MPlayer</B> the same keys as for vo_server. In addition it understands
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852 <CODE>-double</CODE> key as globally visible parameter. (I recommend using
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853 this key with VIDIX at least for ATI's card).<BR>
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854 As for <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE> : currently it recognizes the following
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855 options: <CODE>-fs -zoom -x -y -double</CODE>.<BR>
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856 </P>
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857
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858 <P>Also you can specify VIDIX's driver directly as third subargument in command
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859 line :<BR>
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860 <BR>
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861 &nbsp;&nbsp;<code>mplayer -vo xvidix:mga_vid.so -fs -zoom -double
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862 file.avi</code><BR>
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863 or<BR>
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864 &nbsp;&nbsp;<code>mplayer -vo vesa:vidix:radeon_vid.so -fs -zoom -double -bpp
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865 32 file.avi</code><BR>
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866 <BR>
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867 But it's dangerous, and you shouldn't do that. In this case given driver will
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868 be forced and result is unpredictable (it may <b>freeze</b> your
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869 computer). You should do that ONLY if you are absolutely sure it will work,
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870 and <B>MPlayer</B> doesn't do it automatically. Please tell about it to the
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871 developers. The Right Way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver
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872 autodetection.
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873 </P>
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874
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875 <P>
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876 VIDIX is very new technology and it's extremely possible that on your system
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877 (OS=abc CPU=xyz) it won't work. In this case only solution for you it's port
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878 it (mainly libdha). But there is hope that it will work on those systems
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879 where X11 does.
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880 </P>
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881
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882 <P>And the last <b>WARNING</b>: (un)fortunately you <b>MUST</b> have
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883 <b>ROOT</b> privileges to use VIDIX due to direct hardware access. At least
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884 set the <b>suid</b> bit on the <B>MPlayer</B> excecutable.
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885 </P>
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886
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887 <P><B><I>VIDEO EQUALIZER</I></B></P>
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888
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889 <P>
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890 This is a video equalizer implemented especially for Vidix. You can use
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891 it either with <B>1-8</B> keys as described in the manpage, or
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892 by command line arguments. <B>MPlayer</B> recognizes the
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893 following options :
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894 </P>
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895
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896 <P>
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897 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-brightness</CODE> - adjust <B>BRIGHTNESS</B> of video
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898 output. It's not equal to brightness adjusting on monitor panel or on TV. It
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899 changes intensity of RGB components of video signal from black to white
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900 screen.<BR>
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901 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-contrast</CODE> - adjust <B>CONTRAST</B> of video output.
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902 Works in similar manner as brightness.<BR>
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903 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-saturation</CODE> - adjust <B>SATURATION</B> of video
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904 output. You can get grayscale output with this option.<BR>
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905 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-hue</CODE> - adjust <B>HUE</B> of video signal. You can
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906 get colored negative of image with this option.<BR>
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907 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-red_intensity</CODE> - adjust intensity of <B>RED</B>
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908 component of video signal.<BR>
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909 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-green_intensity</CODE> - adjust intensity of <B>GREEN</B>
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910 component of video signal.<BR>
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911 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-blue_intensity</CODE> - adjust intensity of <B>BLUE</B>
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912 component of video signal.
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913 </P>
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914 <P>
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915 Each parameter can accept values from <B>-1000</B> to <B>+1000</B>.<BR>
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916 Default value for each parameter is <B>0</B>.
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917 </P>
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918 <P>
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919 <B>Note:</B> Not every driver provides support for each of those parameters.
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920 Currently only <B>radeon_vid.so</B> provides full support for video eqalizing.
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921 Other drivers only partly support these options.
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922 </P>
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923 <P><B>Examples:</B><BR>
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924 <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:vidix -brightness -300 -contrast 200
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925 filename.avi</CODE><BR>
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926 or<BR>
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927 <CODE>mplayer -vo xvidix -red_intensity -50 -saturation 400 -hue 300
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928 filename.vob</CODE>
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929 </P>
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930
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931
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932 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.16>2.3.1.16. Zr</A></B></P>
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933
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934 <P>This is a display-driver (<CODE>-vo zr</CODE>) for a number of MJPEG
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935 capture/playback cards (tested for DC10+ and Buz, and it should work for the
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936 LML33, the DC10). The driver works by encoding the frame to jpeg and then
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937 sending it to the card. For the jpeg encoding <B>libavcodec</B> is
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938 used, and required.</P>
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939
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940 <P>This driver talks to the kernel driver available at
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941 <A HREF="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net">http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net</A>, so
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942 you must get it working first. Then recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with
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943 <CODE>--enable-zr</CODE>.</P>
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944
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945 <P>Some remarks:
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946 <UL>
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947 <LI>don't start or stop XawTV on the playback device during playback,
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948 it will crash your computer. It is, however, fine to <B>FIRST</B> start
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949 XawTV, <B>THEN</B> start <B>MPlayer</B>, wait for <B>MPlayer</B> to finish
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950 and <B>THEN</B> stop XawTV.</LI>
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951 <LI>this driver adds <CODE>-zr*</CODE> commandline options. The explanation
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952 of these options can be viewed with <CODE>-zrhelp</CODE>. It is possible to
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953 crop the input frame (cut borders to make it fit or to enhance performace)
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954 and to do other things.</LI>
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955 <LI>the driver takes data in YV12 and YUY2 format, this means that some
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956 codecs won't work. Some old VfW (Video for Windows) codecs, for example,
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957 are incompatible with this driver. The errormessage that you will see is:
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958 <CODE>Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
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959 </CODE></LI>
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960 <LI>OSD is currently not supported, so you won't see
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961 subtitles.</LI>
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962 </UL>
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963 </P>
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964
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967 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A>2.3.1.A. TV-out support</A></B></P>
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969 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.1>2.3.1.A.1. Matrox G400 cards</A></B></P>
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971 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get G400 TV out working :</P>
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972
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973 <P><B>IMPORTANT:</B> Only Matrox G400DH/G400MAX has TV-out support under Linux, others (G450, G550) has <B>NOT!</B></P>
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974
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975 <P>
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976 <UL>
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977 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from
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978 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on
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979 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as
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980 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I>
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981 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work
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982 on it! The windows driver somehow workarounds this, probably by using the
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983 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed
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984 image. If you really want to use X, use the <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>
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985 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copyprotection
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986 enabled (you can "workaround" Macrovision using
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987 <A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net/mgamacro.pl">this</A> perl
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988 script.</LI>
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989 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels.
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990 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this.
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991 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except
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992 MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>! You'll also need I2C
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993 enabled.
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994 <UL>
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995 <LI>
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996 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install
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997 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI>
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998 <LI>
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999 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter
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1000 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install
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1001 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI>
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1002 <LI>
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1003 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the <B>MPlayer</B>
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1004 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console
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1005 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI>
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1006 <LI>Next, run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you
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1007 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should
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1008 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. The <B>3.</B> option
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1009 will turn on independent display, but then you <B>can't use X</B>! If
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1010 the TV (PAL !) picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to
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1011 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Use other menu
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1012 items randomly and it'll be OK :)</LI>
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1013 </UL>
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1014
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1015 <P>
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1016 Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear,
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1017 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P>
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1018
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1019 <P>
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1020 <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE> or <CODE>setterm -cursor off<BR>
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1021 setterm -blank 0</CODE>
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1022 </P>
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1023
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1024 <P>
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1025 You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear
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1026 the screen.. To turn the cursor back :<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE>
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1027 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE>
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1028 </P>
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1029
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1030 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640
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1031 -screenh 512 &lt;filename&gt;</CODE><BR>
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1032 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1 !)<BR>
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1033 Change 640x512 if you set the resolution to other..<BR>
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1034 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv) !</B>
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1035 </P>
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1036 </LI>
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1037 </LI>
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1038 </UL>
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1039 </P>
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1040
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1041
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1042 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.2>2.3.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P>
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1043
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1044 <P>
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1045 <b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR>
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1046 Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux.
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1047 Below is official answer from ATI Inc.:
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1048
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1049 <P>
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1050 <code>
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1051 <i>
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1052 <br>&gt; Hello!
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1053 <br>&gt;
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1054 <br>&gt; On your pages you wrote that you support linux developers.
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1055 <br>&gt; Currently I participate with mplayer project (www.mplayerhq.hu)
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1056 <br>&gt; I'm interesting with enabling TV-out on Radeon VE chips during
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1057 <br>&gt; movie playback. I would be glad to add this feature to radeonfb driver
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1058 <br>&gt; (which can be found in CVS tree of mplayer project at main/drivers/radeon).
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1059 <br>&gt; Do I have a chance to get any official technical documenation?
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1060 </i>
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1061 <br>We will not provide TV out related documents due to macrovision concerns.
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1062 <br>Also mpeg2 decoding is something that we MAY consider in the future but not
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1063 <br>at this current time. This is again due to proprietary and 3rd party
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1064 <br>information.
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1065 </code>
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1066 </P>
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1067
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1068 <P>Pity isn't?</P>
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1069
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1070 <P>
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1071 <code>
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1072 <B>Q:What is Macrovision?</B><BR>
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1073 A:It's copy protection mechanism.</code>
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1074 </P>
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1075
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1076 <P>It means that if they open any TV-out related information then
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1077 hackers will be able to disable copy protection on their chips. Therefore
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1078 we have no chance to get working TV-out on ATI.</P>
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1079
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1080 <P>What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux:
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1081 <LI><b>ATI Mach64</b> has <i>ImpacTV</i> which is supported by <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.
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1082 <LI><b>ASIC Radeon VIVO</b> has <i>Rage Theatre</i> which is supported by <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.
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1083 <LI><b>Radeon VE</b> and <b>Rage PRO LT</b> have <i>ImpacTV2+</i> which is not supported under Linux.
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1084 But with <B>MPlayer</B> you get <B>full hardware acceleration</B> and <B>TV out</B>
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1085 for Radeons !
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1086 Check <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA driver</a> and <A HREF=#2.3.1.14>Radeon
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1087 acceleration</A> sections.</P>
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1088
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1089 <P>
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1090 Fortunately, owners of fast enough CPUs (Duron, Celeron2 and better) <b>can watch
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1091 movies on their TV</b> through <a href=#2.3.1.12>VESA drivers</a>.
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1092 </P>
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1093
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1094 <P>
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1095 I should say good words to ATI Inc. too:<br>
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1096 <b>they produce top quality BIOSes.</b>
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1097 </P>
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1098
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1099 <P>
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1100 <b>VESA drivers</b> don't use any hardware acceleration but it simulates
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1101 <b>DGA</b> through 64K window, which is configured through 32-bit mode
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1102 functions of BIOS. ATI cards have enough <b>fast video memory</b> (DIMM or DDR
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1103 chips with 64 - 128-bit access) so it's not bottleneck for them. There are no
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1104 limitations on which video mode can be displayed on your TV (like on other
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1105 cards) so you can use <b>any video mode</b> on your <b>TV</b> (from
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1106 <b>320x200</b> up to <b>1024x768</b>).<br>
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1107 From other side (it's known at least for <b>Radeons</b>) there is <b>DGA</b>
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1108 mode which is detected automatically and in this case you'll get comparable
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1109 with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> drivers speed.<br>
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1110 Only thing you need to do - <b>have TV connector plugged in before booting your
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1111 PC</b> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure.
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1112 </P>
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1113
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1114 <P>
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1115 For detail see <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> sections of this
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1116 documentation.
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1117 </P>
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1118
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1119
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1120 <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.3>2.3.1.A.3. Voodoo 3</A></B></P>
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1121
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1122 <P>
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1123 Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>.
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1124 </P>
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gabucino
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1126 </BODY>
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1127 </HTML>