[MPlayer-users] Vidix bugs

[Thor Harald Johansen]

Hi,

When I attempt to play a video file using Vidix, everything is in
greyscale until I change the saturation. If I change to full screen, the
colors once again disappear. Tapping the keys works there too. It seems
that someone somewhere has forgotten to pass on the saturation setting to
the hardware. Here's the output from MPlayer, playing a MJPEG AVI file:

(START)

MPlayer 0.90pre6-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Using Linux's hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
Terminal type `rxvt' is not defined.
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/input.conf : No such
file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing mtv1.avi
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [MJPG]  768x576  24bpp  25.00 fps  18084.9 kbps (2207.6 kbyte/s)
Detected audio codec: [pcm] afm:2 (Uncompressed PCM)
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, sfmt: 0x10 (2 bps), ratio: 176400->176400 (1411.2
kbit)
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones!
[genfb] probe
Error occured durint open: No such device
Rage128_vid: Found chip: Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
Rage128_vid: Video memory = 32Mb
Rage128_vid: Set write-combining type of video memory
VIDIX: Description: BES driver for rage128 cards
VIDIX: Author: Nick Kurshev
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec: CPU flags: mmx
Detected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm:5 (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Start playing...
mjpeg: workarounding buggy AVID
mjpeg: interleaved rows: 1
VDec: vo config request - 768 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar 422P)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xvidix] 768x576 => 768x576 Packed YUY2
vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
A:   0.8 V:   0.4 A-V:  0.365 ct:  0.044   12/ 12   0%  0%  0.0% 8 0 0%
Exiting... (Quit)

(STOP)

I have no problems with Xv, but it seems to be a tad slower than Vidix.
That extra speed is enough to make real-time software MJPEG playback
possible on my hardware.

At times, the upper/lower parts of the screen contain parts of different
frames. This leads me to belive that vsync is lacking.
-- 
Thor