[MPlayer-users] VESA vs. SVGA

[Robinson, Chad]

Nick Kurshev wrote:

>> I've switched to -vo vesa to support a new TV-out card, and am pleased to
>> see it's a LOT faster than -vo svga. However, the black bars above and
below
>> the movie are filled with garbage - what looks like text characters from
>> before the screen switch. Clearing the screen before playing the movie,
and
>> using the -quiet switch, don't really do anything to change this.
>> ...

> It seems that you have LCD with 3rd VESA BIOS.
> Indeed VESA passes corresponded flag to int 10h, but your BIOS
> ignores that.

Hmmmmmmmm, I don't see where it's doing that, but I'll take your word for
it. However, I do see a function paintBkGnd that looks like it's supposed to
clear this area. The only problem is, it isn't being called from init(),
because I have DGA. If I modify the source to force the call, this area IS
cleared, but it's cleared to some weird purple and green stuff. I've seen
this while messing around with SVGALib to write a user interface, so maybe I
can fix it.

Regards,
Chad