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Small fixes and modelines moved to a more sensible place.

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<H4><A NAME="dga">2.3.1.2.2 DGA</A></H4>


<H5>PREAMBLE</H4>

<P>This section tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and what
  the DGA video output driver for MPlayer can do (and what it can't).</P>

  config file on startup and disables the modelines not suitable for your
  hardware. You can find out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can
  be found at:
  <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P>

<P>See some working modeline definitions <A HREF="#dga_modelines">here</A>.</P>


<H5>DGA &amp; MPLAYER</H5>

<P>DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to

  <LI>Some drivers simply display strange colors.</LI>
  <LI>Some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's
    address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?).</LI>
  <LI>Some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this
    case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of
    100000x100000 or someathing like that.</LI>
   <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled (else it flickers).</LI>
</UL>


<H5><A NAME="dga_modelines">SOME MODELINES</A></H5>

<PRE>
  Section "Modes"
    Identifier    "Modes[0]"
    Modeline	"800x600"  40     800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628
    Modeline	"712x600"  35.0   712 740 850 900   400 410 412 425
    Modeline	"640x480"  25.175 640 664 760 800   480 491 493 525
    Modeline 	"400x300"  20     400 416 480 528   300 301 303 314 Doublescan
    Modeline	"352x288"  25.10  352 368 416 432   288 296 290 310
    Modeline	"352x240"  15.750 352 368 416 432   240 244 246 262 Doublescan
    Modeline	"320x240"  12.588 320 336 384 400   240 245 246 262 Doublescan
  EndSection
</PRE>

<P>These entries work fine with authors (Acki) Riva128 chip, using nv.o X server driver
  module.</P>


<H4><A NAME="sdl">2.3.1.2.3 SDL</A></H4>

<P>SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) is basically a unified video/audio

<H4><A NAME="mga_vid">2.3.1.2.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></H4>

<P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler)
  support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by A'rpi, and
  it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
  framebuffer console and under X.</P>

<P><B>NOTE</B>: This is Linux only! On non-Linux (tested on FreeBSD) systems,
  you can use <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A> instead!</P>

  and MPlayer doesn't do it automatically. Please tell about it to the
  developers. The Right Way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver
  autodetection.</P>

<P>VIDIX is a new technology and it's extremely possible that on your system
  it won't work. In this case the only solution for you is porting (mainly
  libdha) it. But there is a hope, that it will work on those systems where X11
  does.</P>

<P>Since VIDIX requires direct hardware access you can either run it as root or
  set the SUID bit on the MPlayer binary (<B>Warning: This is a security
  risk!</B>). Alternatively, you can use a special kernel module, like this:</P>

  <LI>Compile the module in the <CODE>svgalib_helper</CODE> directory (it can
    be found inside the <CODE>svgalib-1.9.17/kernel/</CODE> directory if you've
    downloaded the source from the svgalib site) and insmod it.</LI>
  <LI>Move the <CODE>svgalib_helper</CODE> directory to
    <CODE>mplayer/main/libdha/svgalib_helper</CODE>.</LI>
  <LI>Required if you download the source from the svgalib site: remove the
    comment before the CFLAGS line containing "svgalib_helper" string from the
    <CODE>libdha/Makefile</CODE>.</LI>
  <LI>Recompile and install libdha.</LI>
</OL>

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<H4><A NAME="dga">2.3.1.2.2 DGA</A></H4>


<H5>PREAMBLE</H5>

<P>This section tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and what
  the DGA video output driver for MPlayer can do (and what it can't).</P>

  config file on startup and disables the modelines not suitable for your
  hardware. You can find out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can
  be found at:
  <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P>

<P>These entries are known to work fine with a Riva128 chip, using the
  <CODE>nv.o</CODE> X server driver module.</P>

<PRE>
  Section "Modes"
    Identifier    "Modes[0]"
    Modeline	"800x600"  40     800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628
    Modeline	"712x600"  35.0   712 740 850 900   400 410 412 425
    Modeline	"640x480"  25.175 640 664 760 800   480 491 493 525
    Modeline 	"400x300"  20     400 416 480 528   300 301 303 314 Doublescan
    Modeline	"352x288"  25.10  352 368 416 432   288 296 290 310
    Modeline	"352x240"  15.750 352 368 416 432   240 244 246 262 Doublescan
    Modeline	"320x240"  12.588 320 336 384 400   240 245 246 262 Doublescan
  EndSection
</PRE>


<H5>DGA &amp; MPLAYER</H5>

<P>DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to

  <LI>Some drivers simply display strange colors.</LI>
  <LI>Some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's
    address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?).</LI>
  <LI>Some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this
    case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of
    100000x100000 or something like that.</LI>
   <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled (else it flickers).</LI>
</UL>


<H4><A NAME="sdl">2.3.1.2.3 SDL</A></H4>

<P>SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) is basically a unified video/audio

<H4><A NAME="mga_vid">2.3.1.2.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></H4>

<P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler)
  support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's actively developed by A'rpi, and
  it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
  framebuffer console and under X.</P>

<P><B>NOTE</B>: This is Linux only! On non-Linux (tested on FreeBSD) systems,
  you can use <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A> instead!</P>

  and MPlayer doesn't do it automatically. Please tell about it to the
  developers. The Right Way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver
  autodetection.</P>

<P>VIDIX is a new technology and it's extremely possible that on your system
  it won't work. In this case the only solution for you is porting it (mainly
  libdha). But there is hope that it will work on systems where X11 does.</P>

<P>Since VIDIX requires direct hardware access you can either run it as root or
  set the SUID bit on the MPlayer binary (<B>Warning: This is a security
  risk!</B>). Alternatively, you can use a special kernel module, like this:</P>

  <LI>Compile the module in the <CODE>svgalib_helper</CODE> directory (it can
    be found inside the <CODE>svgalib-1.9.17/kernel/</CODE> directory if you've
    downloaded the source from the svgalib site) and insmod it.</LI>
  <LI>Move the <CODE>svgalib_helper</CODE> directory to
    <CODE>mplayer/main/libdha/svgalib_helper</CODE>.</LI>
  <LI>Required if you download the source from the svgalib site: Remove the
    comment before the CFLAGS line containing "svgalib_helper" string from the
    <CODE>libdha/Makefile</CODE>.</LI>
  <LI>Recompile and install libdha.</LI>
</OL>