[MPlayer-DOCS] NOVIRUS Section: 2.3.5.6. NeoMagic

[Helio Polis]

Hello,

>From the Documentation:
"2.3.5.6. NeoMagic

The NeoMagic chip is found in a variety of laptops, some of them are 
equipped with a simple analog TV encoder, some have a more advanced one.

Analog encoder chip: Tested on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. Its TV output chip is 
miserable crap. Avoid if possible.

You must use -vo vesa. The tested chip was capable of 1.333333 aspect ratio 
only, so be sure to use the -x, -y options and/or the -vf scale,crop,expand 
filters if the box doesn't let you enable TV output. Maximum resolution was 
720*576 at 16bpp.

Known issues: VESA-only, 1.33333 limitation, image isn't always centered, 
movie becomes 4bpp in every 10 minutes, and stays that way. Frequent hard 
freezes, LCD display problems."

Tested on a Tecra8000, TV out worked perfectly using fbdev initiated by the 
following:

mplayer dvd:// -vo fbdev2 -vc ffmpeg2 -ao oss -framedrop -cache 8192

And hitting Fn key+F5 three times to enable TV/out. Two complete movies have 
been viewed (and enjoyed) with image centered (on TV screen not on the 
laptop's LCD), Only remark is that X had to be running on the machine then 
switch to console and start mplayer. If that step isn't done the video is 
too slow/choppy for some unknown reason.
If this is already known, or posted on the wrong list, then please forgive 
me and discard the post.
Thanks for your time and efforts.

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