[MPlayer-users] XV on a Trident Cyberblade

[Alex Kloss]

Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2001 13:22 schrieben Sie:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
>
> Hi,
>
> It is Trident Xv driver problem. complain to Xv driver author.
>
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html
> > & http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or
> > problems]
> >
> > Hello mplayer developers,
> >
> > First of all, mplayer rocks! To my humble opinion, it's the best player
> > available for *nix.
> >
> > However, I've a question. On my desktop pc equipped with a voodoo3, the
> > xv output works outstanding! I get nice smooth scaled movies. On the
> > laptop, equipped with a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 106) the
> > xv output doesn't work well. The movies (352x240) have an offset to the
> > right leaving a vertical blue bar on the left hand side of 26 pixels
> > wide. When playing a dvd size (720x304) movie, the screen is splitted
> > into 3 parts. On the left hand side, I see the right hand side part. On
> > the right hand side, I see the left hand side part. On the left hand
> > side edge, I see a blue vertical bar. Only a small vertical part in the
> > center is at the right place.
> >
> > The x11 driver works well on the laptop, but is so much slower.
> >
> > *** I've read the documentation and I know this Trident chip isn't
> > mentioned in the xv driver part. ***
> >
> > However, the Trident does have XVideo support according to the XFree86
> > log file:
> >
> >      (II) Loading extension XVideo
> >      (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
> >
> > If XVideo is not supported for this videochip, I have no problems with
> > that. I just watch the movies on the desktop pc. :-)
> >
> > Keep on the good work!
> > Gilbert Duivesteijn
> >
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> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
Hello, there!

I've got the same problem w/ the same videochip. I'm using -vo sdl:dga (need 
to run that as root). This is much faster than x11 and even allows -fs!

LX