[MPlayer-users] using VESA and radeon image is purple where black should be

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, Brian!

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:05:11 -0500 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:59:02PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > 
> > Hello, Brian!
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> > If you use /dev/radeon_vid then you can be sure that BES is used.
> 
> Yeah?  OK.  I will take your word for it.  :-)  Maybe I should try
> some comparisons with and without ":lvo:/dev/radeon_vid" and see if I
> can see the difference.
> 
> > Else mplayer will not work and will be terminated with error message.
> 
> Okie.
> 
> > K6-300 is not very powerfull hardware.
> 
> No, not by my Athlon TB 800 standards it is not, but I thought it
> would have done better with Mplayer than 80+%, especially since I am
> not using the software scaler.  Mplayer is using 80+% to simply read
You use SW scaling automatically if you use pure VESA output.
> the AVI, (de)mux it and ship the data off to the video device to have
> it do BES and play the audio.
> 
> My Athlon TB 800 plays the same file on Xv, unscaled (I am assuming
> because the Radeon does scaling this is a fair comparison) in less
> than 8% CPU.  Is there really that much difference between a K6-300
> and an Athlon-800?
> 
Yes
> > Indeed to have successful speed you need with radeon_dvd driver or similar.
> 
> You mean using the MPEG2 decoder on the card?  But will that help with
> an OpenDivX (or even MPEG1) stream?
> 
Patrly by IDCT
> > But ATI hides DVD related info (even for GATOS and X11 developers).
> 
> Yeah, I know.  I would have avoided ATI due to that if there were a
> choice in BES, TV-Out capable hardware.
> 
A lot: Matrox, NVidia
> > O'k - you've reached maximal video performance.
> 
> Good.  Still seems a bit jerky in some places.  Maybe it's just me.  I
> have not sat down and watched a full program yet.  Just sampling.
> 
> > minor correction: '-fs -zoom' will give correct aspect ratio but will not affect on speed.
> 
> OK.  Thanx.
> 
> > Also try play with -vc and -ac options.
> 
> Which codec(s) do the best job with:
> 
> MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (65552) HAS_INDEX WAS_CAPTUREFILE
> VIDEO:  [DIVX]  320x240  24bpp  29.97 fps  1843.4 kbps (225.0 kbyte/s)
> [V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x58564944  size:320x240  fps:29.97
> ftime:=0.0334
> 
> type files?  How about audio codecs for:
> 
> Detected audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> mp3lib: Processor ID: 580
> mp3lib: Using AMD 3dnow! optimized decore.
> AUDIO: srate=22050  chans=2  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 8000->88200
> 
> It would seem that Mplayer chose the 
> 
> Detected video codec: [odivx] drv:3 prio:0 (OpenDivX (MPEG-4 v2))
> 
> for video.  I would hope that is the best one since I left it up to
> Mplayer to decide.
> 
Try every compatible and select faster for you.
> b.
> 
> -- 
> Brian J. Murrell
> 
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Best regards! Nick