[MPlayer-users] Re: xvidix panscan

[Stefan Seyfried]

Joonas Koivunen <rzei at mbnet.fi> writes:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi there,
> 
> When panscanning with xvidix videout (radeon to be exact), the movie part of 
> the screen turns all green, works ok without any panscan. Using crop to 

something similar happens to me on my neomagic notebook using xv.
I believe this is a driver / hardware limitation since it cannot scale
to anything bigger than the actual display (try shoving your window half
off-screen and then resize it to be bigger than your actual desktop. Does
not work here).
So the panscan probably just zooms in by scaling the image bigger and
setting a window inside which just doesn't work on our hardware.

> overcome this limitation is rather slow, any better choices/ideas? Except 
> than modifying driver itself, which is out of scope for me at least :)

why is crop slow? but anyway, you can't change cropping on the fly, so
it is not as comfortable as it should be :-)
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