[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vo_vesa fixes for some cards

[The Wanderer]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:40:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Sascha Sommer wrote:
>> 
>>> It looks like Geexbox users are the only ones who are using vo
>>> vesa anyway, therefore I would have no problem with the geexbox
>>> devels maintaing vo vesa.
>> 
>> Well, I know they aren't the only ones - there are at least two
>> people in my household with damn-slow computers who get "your
>> computer is too slow" and dreadful A/V desync with anything
>> (they've tried) but VESA output; the same was true of me, once upon
>> a time.
> 
> anything with acceleration would be a lot faster. why can't they use
> vidix?

I don't know why not for certain (although I'm not certain they have
what could properly be called "acceleration" available), but I've never
really had VIDIX working either, at least not when not root (and I'm not
sure about then, either). I did get it going once, for about the space
of one video, with dhahelper - but that stopped working almost
immediately, and only worked in the first place after I got Sascha to
add detection support for my graphics card.

Not to mention that in my admittedly limited experience (mostly from
fiddling around back when I had a much, much slower machine), VESA is
perhaps the fastest video-out method, with the primary but large
disadvantage being that it can only be used from the console (as a side
effect of which the console messages which get printed are never
visible). With anything else, I couldn't reliably get full-speed
playback in (or IIRC in some cases out of) fullscreen, even of a fairly
simple 320x240 file; with -vo vesa, some considerably more taxing things
played just fine.

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