Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 24160:bdef7723fd23
Document xorg.conf option needed for Xv playback on Intel cards.
| author | rathann |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:23:15 +0000 |
| parents | 13a22175045e |
| children | 10cbc709910b |
| files | DOCS/xml/en/video.xml |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sat Aug 25 13:37:19 2007 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sat Aug 25 14:23:15 2007 +0000 @@ -312,6 +312,30 @@ <ulink url="http://www.powervr.com/">PowerVR site</ulink>. </para> </sect2> + + +<sect2 id="intel"> +<title>Intel cards</title> + +<para> +These cards can be found in many laptops. Recent Xorg is recommended. +</para> + +<para> +To allow playback of DVD sized (and larger) content change your XF86Config/xorg.conf like this: +<programlisting> +Section "Device" + [...] + Driver "intel" + <emphasis>Option "LinearAlloc" "6144"</emphasis> + [...] +EndSection +</programlisting> +Lack of this option usually results in an error like +<screen>X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)</screen> +when attempting to use <option>-vo xv</option>. +</para> +</sect2> </sect1> <!-- ********** -->