[MPlayer-users] Problem playing DivX video with Neomagic
Stefan Recksiegel
sr at particle.uni-karlsruhe.de
Wed Sep 25 05:43:02 CEST 2002
> aolution yet. In my XF86Config file I hve Option "extern_disp" so that by
> default my laptop displays to an external monitor and it appears to be this
> that is causing the problem. When I remove it and use xv it works fine, even
> when I switch to the external monitor etc while it is playing but if I start
> up with the external display as the defult it doesnt work no matter what I
> try. The reason i use extern_disp is that iot allows me to get refresh rates
> higher than 60Hz on my monitor but if I swtitch to the external monitor after
> the refresh gets reset to 60hz by the BIOS. I guess this is problem with the
> chipset but was wondering whether anyone had any clues.
I would guess that the chipset reserves an extra bank of video memory for
the external display when you use extern_disp to be able to use refresh rates
different from the 60Hz for the internal LCD. And that memory is then not
available anymore to be used as off-screen YUV-buffer for XV.
Stefan
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