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nvidia info update

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<sect5 id="nvidia">
<title>nVidia cards</title>

<para>
nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux (according to nVidia, this is
<link linkend="nvidia-opinions">not true</link>)... You'll have to use the
binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's web site. The
standard XFree86 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to
nVidia's closed sources/specifications.
</para>

<para>
As far as I know the latest XFree86 driver contains XVideo support for
GeForce 2 and 3.
</para>

<para>
Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nVidia driver :(
Complain to nVidia.
</para>
</sect5>


<sect5 id="ati">

<para>
There's a relatively new nVidia driver out there, it's known to work on Riva
128, TNT and GeForce2 chipsets, also others have been reported working.
</para>

<para>
It's recommended to use the binary nVidia drivers for X before using this
VIDIX driver, because some of the registers which need to be initialized
haven't been discovered yet, so it will probably fail with the Open Source
XFree86 <filename>nv.o</filename> driver.
</para>

<para>
Reports awaited!
</para>

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<sect5 id="nvidia">
<title>nVidia cards</title>

<para>
nVidia isn't always a very good choice under Linux (according to nVidia, this
is <link linkend="nvidia-opinions">not true</link>)... XFree86's
open-source driver supports most of these cards, but for some cases, you'll
have to use the binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's web
site. You'll always need this driver if you want 3D acceleration too.
</para>

<para>
Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support with XFree86's nVidia driver :(
Complain to nVidia.
</para>

<para>
However, MPlayer contains a <link linkend="vidix">Vidix</link> driver
(<link linkend="vidix-nvidia">nvidia_vid</link>) for most nVidia cards.
Currently it is in beta stage, and has some drawbacks. For more information,
<link linkend="vidix-nvidia">click here</link>.
</para>
</sect5>


<sect5 id="ati">

<para>
There's a relatively new nVidia driver out there, it's known to work on Riva
128, TNT and GeForce2 chipsets, also others have been reported working.
</para>

<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<title>LIMITATIONS</title>
<listitem><para>
  It's recommended to use the binary nVidia drivers for X before using this
  VIDIX driver, because some of the registers which need to be initialized
  haven't been discovered yet, so it will probably fail with the Open Source
  XFree86 <filename>nv.o</filename> driver.
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  Currently only codecs capable of UYVY colorspace output are the only ones
  that can work in conjuction with this driver. Unfortunately, this excludes
  every single decoder from the libavcodec family. This leaves us with the
  following usable popular codecs: <systemitem>cvid, divxds, xvid, divx4,
  wmv7, wmv8</systemitem> and some others. Please note that this is only
  a temporal incomfortability. The usage syntax is as follows:
  <screen>
    mplayer -vf formay=uyvy -vc divxds divx3file.avi
  </screen>
  </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
  An unique feature of the nvidia_vid driver is its ability to display video on
  <emphasis role="bold">plain, pure, text-only console</emphasis> - with no
  framebuffer or X magic whatsoever. For this purpose, we'll have to use the
  <option>cvidix</option> video output, as the following example shows:
  <screen>
    mplayer -vf formay=uyvy -vc divxds -vo cvidix example.avi
  </screen>
</para>

<para>
Reports awaited!
</para>