[MPlayer-dev-eng] libvo driver for S3 Virge

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:38:15PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 April 2006 at 18:50, Mark Sanderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have put together a driver for S3 Virge cards based off the tdfxfb
> > driver for 3dfx cards by Mark Zealey.  It's a hardware driver that has
> > YUV conversion and scaling, double buffering and direct rendering.  The
> > code comes from my custom TV program (modified quite a bit), and before
> > that mostly xfree86.
> > I'm distributing it as is of course, meaning it may only work on my
> > system (s3 virge/gx 4mb, in vesa 1024x768/32bit framebuffer mode).  But
> > let me know if it's useful or if I can improve it.
> > Here's the patch against the MPlayer-1.0pre7try2 source.
> > configure -enable-s3fb
> > mplayer -vo s3fb -vf yuy2
> 
> Please make a patch against current CVS.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to merge this into vidix? It already requires root
> for some operations, so there's no gain in keeping it as a separate vo.

No, it would be better to make it a kernel module or else use the mmio
registers mapped from /dev/fb0. The last thing we need is more of this
vidix root nonsense.

Rich