[MPlayer-advusers] xvidix broken on Radeon

[Christian Ohm]

Hello,

On Monday, 29 September 2008 at 16:26, Christian Ohm wrote:
> I used to use the xvidix VO until it broke quite some time ago, I don't
> remember when exactly, but it was months ago (I seem to remember it was spring
> then, but I don't know if it was this year or the last). I assumed it would get
> fixed eventually, and just used cvidix instead. Now I upgraded my graphics
> card, from a Radeon 9600XT to a X800 GTO, and cvidix doesn't work (I haven't
> yet gotten the console to support my 1600x1200 resolution, I guess that's the
> problem). Unfortunately xvidix still doesn't work (with current mplayer svn).
> 
> With the 9600, xvidix usually showed a green window, but some switches between
> fullscreen and windowed usually made the movie show (sometimes it worked on
> first start, and sometimes the movie wasn't quite where the window was). I
> tested some older mplayer revisions then, but the problem was always there, so
> I assumed a problem with some X update (though I'm not sure if that really was
> the cause, I didn't really investigate further).
> 
> Now with the X800, I don't even get an image of the movie, either green as
> before, or some random noise (sometimes not in the window, as the movie before;
> as I haven't tested xvidix before exchanging the graphics card, I cannot say if
> this is specific to the X800).  The noise is just on the screen, a Gimp
> screenshot just gets the green colour key, and -vf screenshot an image from the
> movie. If an image of that is useful, I can make one once the batteries for my
> digicam are recharged.
> 
> I am using Debian unstable (32 bit) on an AMD X2 3800+, updated at least every
> few weeks. The current kernel is 2.6.26.3, before that I used mostly
> 2.6.22.12-ck1.  Currently installed are xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-6 and
> xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4, though as I said, the problem appeared
> months ago, with some older version. lspci information for the X800:
> 
> Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc R480 [Radeon X800 GTO (PCIE)] (Secondary) [1002:5d6f]
> 
> I don't think the following is relevant, but just in case:
> libc6                                             2.7-13
> gcc                                               4:4.3.2-1
> binutils                                          2.18.1~cvs20080103-7
> depth of root window:    24 planes
> 
> The attached log was done without the ~/.mplayer directory, with some switches
> between windowed and fullscreen. One line caught my eye: "[radeon] DVI port has
> no monitor connected", since I have a display attached to the DVI port.

No answers in two weeks... Does xvidix work for everyone else? Is there some
information missing? I can also test patches, and to a limited extend hack on
the code, but I have absolutely no idea where to start here.

Best regards,
Christian Ohm