Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 2956:f6b51da0a50d
DOXized and applied Nick's radeon_vid patch. Nick, should I update
the VESA section or do you want to do it ?
| author | gabucino |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:43:25 +0000 |
| parents | 9918dc4d7907 |
| children | 72229b5bd370 |
| files | DOCS/documentation.html DOCS/video.html |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/documentation.html Sat Nov 17 17:11:56 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html Sat Nov 17 17:43:25 2001 +0000 @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.11">2.3.1.11 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.12">2.3.1.12 VESA - output to VESA BIOS</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.13">2.3.1.13 X11</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">2.3.1.14 Radeon framebuffer (radeon_vid)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A">2.3.1.A TVout</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.1">2.3.1.A.1 Matrox</A></LI> @@ -292,7 +293,9 @@ TV out section</A>.</LI> <LI>If you own an ATI card, see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards -section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI> +section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is supported under Linux/MPlayer. +If you have a <B>Radeon</B> card, we have a <B>radeon_vid</B> driver for you ! +Check <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section !</LI> <LI>If you plan to use the ProjectMayo's <B>DivX4</B> codec, check the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1</A> section before compiling.
--- a/DOCS/video.html Sat Nov 17 17:11:56 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/video.html Sat Nov 17 17:43:25 2001 +0000 @@ -731,6 +731,36 @@ SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality !</P> +<P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.14>2.3.1.14. Radeon framebuffer (radeon_vid)</A></B></P> +<P> +<b>radeon_vid</b> provides support for the <b>BackEnd Scaler</b> on ATI <b>Radeon</b> chipsets. +It was designed and introduced as analog of <a href="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid</a> driver, so you can use it in the same way!<br> +But main goal of this driver usage is <a href="video.html#2.3.1.12">VESA</a> driver.<br> +Simply because VESA enables TV-out on ATI's card but Backend scaler is used after +mode switching. This implementation outputs video stream on both: <b>TV-screen</b> and <b>CRTC</b> +display simultaneously. (It slightly degrades quality of video output but it's +much better than nothing). +Sorry! I couldn't find out any video overlay's related information +on ATI pages. (I planned to implement it through <b>int 10h</b> calls). But it was +very easy to implement this stuff through reading/writing Radeon ports. +<br><b>NOTE</b>: XXX_VID technology is perfectly undocumented and maybe in the +future this stuff will be fully rewritten. This is the first public release of +driver.</P> + +<P> + <b>Location:</b><BR> + mplayer-CVS:main/drivers/radeon/radeon_vid* +<br><b>Usage:</b><BR> + <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:lvo:/dev/radeon_vid <your options> filename</CODE> +</P> + +<P><b>Limitations:</b> Currently it works only with <b>YUY2</b> format, so use the DirectShow codec +family with it. You should have at least 32MB of video memory.<br> +<b>Conclusion:</b> I know there are lot of lacks and bugs. So if you are able +to improve something then simply send me your patches. +</P> + + <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A>2.3.1.A. TV-out support</A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.1>2.3.1.A.1. Matrox cards</A></B></P> @@ -874,7 +904,7 @@ </P> -<P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.3>2.3.1.A.3. Voodoo 3</A></B></P> +<P><B><A NAME=2.3.1.A.4>2.3.1.A.4. Voodoo 3</A></B></P> <P> Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>.