[MPlayer-dev-eng] Documentation: video.html patch

[Arpi]

Hi,

> As I've found not every debeloper have write access to main/DOCS subfolder.
> In this connection - I've done patch for video.html file.
> Please apply!

Gabucino asked to limit DOCS write to him.

> +<br>>Hello!
       ^-this won't be ok in HTML 

> +<br><br>From other side - we could have a chance to have TV-out support through
> +<b>VESA drivers</b> on x86 systems but since Linux has too limited <i>vm86 syscall</i>
> +- it's unreachable on practice. Finely every access to IO space causes exception
> +and driver attempts to emulate even VESA calls instead passing them to native
> +int_10h handler.
>  </P>

is it possible to enable TVout using VESA bios calls?
dosemu and some other projects has code for handle VESA calls from linux.
I also used them in dosrunner.

They run small program (actually it's a gate between your program and
DOS/bios), catching exceptions (privileged port access etc) and emulate them
if allowes (if port range is ok, do port r/w emulating the problematic
instructions else skip them). There is also a handy library (called LRMI)
for this. Of course, it requires root.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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