[MPlayer-DOCS] r19081 - in trunk/DOCS/xml/en: skin.xml video.xml
diego
subversion at mplayerhq.hu
Fri Jul 14 09:57:02 CEST 2006
Author: diego
Date: Fri Jul 14 09:57:01 2006
New Revision: 19081
Modified:
trunk/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml
trunk/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
Log:
Update some old and crufty sections.
Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml (original)
+++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml Fri Jul 14 09:57:01 2006
@@ -773,10 +773,6 @@
These are the messages that can be generated by buttons, potmeters and
menu entries.
</para>
-<note><para>
-Some of the messages might not work as expected (or not work at all).
-As you know, the GUI is under development.
-</para></note>
<variablelist>
<title>Playback control:</title>
Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml (original)
+++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Fri Jul 14 09:57:01 2006
@@ -872,8 +872,8 @@
<para>
This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler)
-support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's actively developed by A'rpi, and
-it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
+support, the <systemitem>mga_vid</systemitem> kernel driver.
+It has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
framebuffer console and under X.
</para>
@@ -1503,13 +1503,6 @@
</para>
<para>
-VIDIX is new technology and it's extremely possible that on your
-system it won't work. In this case only solution for you
-it's port it (mainly libdha). But there is hope that it will work on those
-systems where X11 does.
-</para>
-
-<para>
Since VIDIX requires direct hardware access you can either run it as root
or set the SUID bit on the <application>MPlayer</application> binary
(<emphasis role="bold">Warning: This is a security risk!</emphasis>).
@@ -1597,43 +1590,15 @@
<sect3 id="vidix-nvidia">
<title>nVidia cards</title>
-<para>
-There's a relatively new nVidia driver out there, it's known to work on Riva
-128, TNT and GeForce2 chipsets, also others have been reported working.
-</para>
-
-<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-<title>LIMITATIONS</title>
-<listitem><para>
- It's recommended to use the binary nVidia drivers for X before using this
- VIDIX driver, because some of the registers which need to be initialized
- haven't been discovered yet, so it will probably fail with the Open Source
- XFree86 <filename>nv.o</filename> driver.
- </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
- Currently only codecs capable of UYVY colorspace output
- can work in conjunction with this driver. Unfortunately, this excludes
- every single decoder from the
- <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> family. This leaves
- us with the following usable popular codecs:
- <systemitem>cvid, divxds, xvid, divx4, wmv7, wmv8</systemitem> and some
- others. Please note that this is only
- a temporal inconvenience. The usage syntax is as follows:
- <screen>mplayer -vf format=uyvy -vc divxds <replaceable>divx3file.avi</replaceable> </screen>
- </para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
<para>
An unique feature of the nvidia_vid driver is its ability to display video on
<emphasis role="bold">plain, pure, text-only console</emphasis> - with no
framebuffer or X magic whatsoever. For this purpose, we'll have to use the
<option>cvidix</option> video output, as the following example shows:
- <screen>mplayer -vf format=uyvy -vc divxds -vo cvidix <replaceable>example.avi</replaceable> </screen>
+ <screen>mplayer -vo cvidix <replaceable>example.avi</replaceable></screen>
</para>
-<para>
-Reports awaited!
-</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="vidix-sis">
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