[MPlayer-users] radeon vidix pink output

[Fernando Pieri (linux)]

kal at www.linsystems.ca wrote:

> The radeon vidix driver in MPlayer-0.90pre10.tar.bz2 produces all pink output
> on my particular Radeon 8500 card.  I tried the latest CVS.  Same thing.
> 
> Recalling that this used to work, I checked out an older versions of the 
> radeon_vid.c file from CVS and found that undoing this change worked:
> 
> 1040,1042c1040,1042
> <     OUTREG(OV0_COLOUR_CNTL, (((besr.brightness*64)/1000) & 0x7f) |
> <                             (((besr.saturation*31+31000)/2000) << 8) |
> <                             (((besr.saturation*31+31000)/2000) << 16));
> ---
> 
>>    OUTREG(OV0_COLOUR_CNTL, (besr.brightness & 0x7f) |
>>                          (besr.saturation << 8) |
>>                          (besr.saturation << 16));
> 
> 
> In the mail archives, this person seems to have the same problem as I did:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-June/017441.html


In my case, with a AIW Radeon 7500 (Radeon QW) I also get a solid pink 
output with xvidix with current mplayer CVS, but the change you mention 
doesn't work.

I've found that with this change works, but with an 8 pixel pink 
vertical right line.

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< to->flags = VID_CAP_EXPAND | VID_CAP_SHRINK | VID_CAP_COLORKEY;
---
 > to->flags = VID_CAP_EXPAND | VID_CAP_SHRINK/* | VID_CAP_COLORKEY*/;