[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS documentation.html,1.55,1.56 video.html,1.13,1.14
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Thu Sep 27 19:53:30 CEST 2001
Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS
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Modified Files:
documentation.html video.html
Log Message:
tdfxfb added
Index: documentation.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/documentation.html,v
retrieving revision 1.55
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -r1.55 -r1.56
--- documentation.html 27 Sep 2001 16:16:07 -0000 1.55
+++ documentation.html 27 Sep 2001 17:53:27 -0000 1.56
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A>
- </LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 3dfx YUV support</A>
+ </LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.10">2.2.1.10 OpenGL output</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.11">2.2.1.11 AAlib - text mode displaying</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.A">2.2.1.A TVout</A>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
from ours, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use
our package! However, you can use our codecs package with avifile.</LI>
-<LI>If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450 card, then please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7</A>
+<LI>If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 card, then please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7</A>
section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
built.</LI>
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@
<LI>send user questions here (after reading all this documentation)</LI>
</UL></P>
-</LI><LI>MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users:<BR>
+</LI><LI>MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:<BR>
<A HREF="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A>
<P>Send matrox-related questions here<UL>
<LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
Index: video.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/video.html,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14
--- video.html 27 Sep 2001 16:16:07 -0000 1.13
+++ video.html 27 Sep 2001 17:53:27 -0000 1.14
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>syncfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga)</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3dfx</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe
broken)</TD><TR>
+<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>tdfxfb</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV support on tdfx framebuffer (works!)</TD><TR>
<TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Special:</B></P></TD><TR>
@@ -166,6 +167,8 @@
If you experience strange effects using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too)
and see if it helps. Check the <A HREF="#2.2.1.4">SDL section</A> for details.</P>
+<P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the <A HREF=#2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9</A>
+section!</P>
<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.2.2>2.2.1.2.2. S3 cards</A></B></P>
@@ -502,7 +505,7 @@
<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.7>2.2.1.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></B></P>
-<P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler)
+<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 me (A'rpi), and
it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
framebuffer console and under X.</P>
@@ -552,12 +555,11 @@
updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. Volunteers
needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P>
-<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9. 3dfx YUV support</A></B></P>
+<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9. 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></B></P>
-<P>3dfx has native YUV+scaler support, using /dev/3dfx (tdfx.o driver?)
-The /dev/3dfx kernel driver exists only for 2.2.x kernels, for use with
-Glide 2.x Linux ports. It's not tested with <B>MPlayer</B>, and so no more
-supported. Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.</P>
+<P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with
+YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile with
+<CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.10>2.2.1.10. OpenGL output</A></B></P>
@@ -628,7 +630,7 @@
such a feature to mplayer.</I></P>
<P>It's a driver limitation. BES (Back-End Scaler, it's the overlay generator
-and YUV scaling engine of G200/G400/G450 cards) works only with CRTC1.
+and YUV scaling engine of G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) works only with CRTC1.
Normally, CRTC1 (textmode, every bpp gfx and BES) is routed to HEAD1,
and CRTC2 (only 16/32bpp gfx) is routed to HEAD2 (TV-out).</P>
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