Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:00:58 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TV output turn on Message-ID: <20021111060058.A65502AD@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> of "Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:00:18 EST." <200211101800.18129.behanna@zbzoom.net>
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--==_Exmh_-2542936P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Have you tried 'mplayer'? It seems to be more flexible (and faster, > > smoother, etc.) for most of the DVD's I own. > > Ditto, although the video/audio sync sometimes has to be adjusted by > +/- 200ms. Ogle has also gotten much, much better of late, and offers > DVD menu support. Heh. Yes, I sometimes run it just to see what they look like, particularly if I have a DVD (IIRC, "The Professional" did this) that plays some segment that isn't the feature by default, and you need to work out where to point 'mplayer' so you can watch the movie... > > Hmm? I don't see how v4l will make any difference? I could (easily > > ;-) be wrong, but I thought video4linux was video-capture-related? > > My reading of the GATOS website suggests that atitvout is built on > top of video4linux, which, in addition to video capture, also attempts > to pull some of the lower level Xlib functionality into the kernel and > present a common API to video in/out tools. > > I could (easily :-) be wrong, but I did spend quite some time on > this, hoping to make better use of my Radeon VIVO. I ended up buying > a Hauppauge WinTV Go! card to get by for now. Huh. Perusing the 'atitvout' web page /again/ (which is at http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout), I still can't see any mention of 'video4linux', the author seems to be saying that it uses ATI VESA calls to set up the functionality. However, as I don't have anything that would benefit from this (or could test it on), my interest is fairly academic... > > I use the Gatos ATI drivers on my Mobility M1 to provide XvImage > > support (hardware scaling and color transform), and they work great. > > Indeed they do. Last crack, they didn't build against XFree86 > 4.2.x (one of the Radeon chip constants got bifurcated in X, but GATOS > didn't track this change). Perhaps this has been fixed by now--I miss > having hardware scaling on my laptop, and I haven't had time to bake > and contribute a patch. Another option is to use DGA - this often gives the very best results, actually, for all that it's a potential security hole (actually, a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for a single-user machine, IMHO, I generally set 'mplayer' SGID something that I chmod /dev/mem group read/writable to, and add ). Also, note that you don't need to build the Gatos drivers (unless you really, really, distrust pre-compiled binaries! ;-). This is because the XFree86 portable/loadable modules scheme is platform (but not processor)-independant. I just install the Linux x86 Gatos binary drivers on top of XFree86, and they get loaded into the XFree86 server at run-time using their own scheme and then run directly - without going through the Linuxator, so you don't even need that installed. Been doing this for about the last 4-5 revs of these drivers, from XFree86 4.1 up to the current FreeBSD port version, has always Just Worked As Designed. > > drm and dri are not available for the Rage 128 Mobility M1, so I > > don't see how they are necessary to use the Gatos stuff... > > They're needed for v4l, which in turn is (I believe) needed for > atitvout. OK, you may be right - I certainly can't test it :) > If someone shows me to be wrong, I'll be *ecstatic*. I'd love to > yank out the WinTV card and put a slot fan in its place. There's > nothing wrong with the WinTV card, mind you, and this is not a knock > at Hauppauge; I just hate having redundant cards in my machine. Yes, I love my WinTV. Oooh, that sounds like something else. :) > > Heh. After two years of using my laptop to do just that, I'm > > astonished how much better (particularly more vibrant colors) > > everything looks on a CRT since I started docking it... :-) > > Iiyama. The only way to fly. :-) I bought a refurb'd IBM P201 oh, 5 years ago for $600 - which was a pretty good deal for a 20" Trinitron multisync monitor that did 1600x1200@85hz at the time... Only time I've ever regretted it is whenever I have to pick it up and move it :-) Cheers, AS --==_Exmh_-2542936P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9z0eaPHh895bDXeQRAn5JAJ9wCClxkaoIVx57bvBZEr76aoZ19QCePT7j NgG/1e74HrQ1bYC894pEAcg= =/p+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-2542936P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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