[MPlayer-DOCS] r21155 - trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml

diego subversion at mplayerhq.hu
Tue Nov 21 21:31:35 CET 2006 

Author: diego
Date: Tue Nov 21 21:31:35 2006
New Revision: 21155

Modified:
   trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml

Log:
Remove outdated and superfluous video cards section.


Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	Tue Nov 21 21:31:35 2006
@@ -86,159 +86,6 @@
 </sect1>
 
 
-<sect1 id="video-cards">
-<title>Video cards</title>
-
-<para>
-There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
-<emphasis role="bold">hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</emphasis> support,
-the other cards don't.
-</para>
-
-
-<sect2 id="yuv-cards">
-<title>YUV cards</title>
-
-<para>
-They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
-their memory, with <emphasis role="bold">small CPU usage</emphasis> (even when
-zooming), thus fullscreen is nice and very fast.
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</emphasis>: although a
-  <link linkend="vidix">Vidix driver</link> is provided, it is recommended to
-  use the mga_vid module instead, for it works much better.
-  Please see the <link linkend="mga_vid">mga_vid</link> section about its
-  installation and usage. It is important to do these steps
-  <emphasis>before</emphasis> compiling <application>MPlayer</application>,
-  otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the
-  <link linkend="tvout-mga-g400">Matrox TV-out</link> section.
-  <emphasis role="bold"> If you don't use Linux</emphasis>, your only
-  possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> section.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</emphasis>: please see
-  <link linkend="tdfxfb">tdfxfb</link> section in order to gain big speedup.
-  It is important to do these steps <emphasis role="bold">before</emphasis>
-  compiling <application>MPlayer</application>, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be
-  built.
-  If you use X, use at least <emphasis role="bold">4.2.0</emphasis>, as 3dfx Xv
-  driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier releases.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">ATI cards</emphasis>: <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link>
-  driver is provided for the following cards:
-  <emphasis role="bold">Radeon, Rage128, Mach64</emphasis> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
-  Also see the <link linkend="tvout-ati">ATI cards</link> section of the TV-out documentation,
-  to know if you card's TV-out is supported under Linux/<application>MPlayer</application>.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">S3 cards</emphasis>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have
-  hardware acceleration. Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are
-  buggy. Savage chips have problems with YV12 display, see <link linkend="s3">S3 Xv</link>
-  section for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware support.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">nVidia cards</emphasis>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
-  If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work without bugs.
-  <emphasis role="bold">the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support
-  hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards.</emphasis> You have
-  to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from <ulink url="http://nvidia.com">nVidia.com</ulink>.
-  See the <link linkend="nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</link> section for details. Please also check
-  the <link linkend="tvout-nvidia">nVidia TV-out</link> section if you wish to
-  use a TV.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</emphasis>: a VIDIX driver
-  is provided (pm3_vid). Please see the <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> section
-  for details.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">Other cards</emphasis>: none of the above?
-  <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
-    acceleration. See the <link linkend="xv">Xv</link> section for details.
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
-    your operating system :( If hardware scaling works under Windows, it
-    doesn't mean it will work under Linux or other operating system, it depends on
-    the drivers. Most manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release
-    specifications of their chips - so you are unlucky if using their cards.
-    See <xref linkend="non-yuv-cards"/>.
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-  </para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</para>
-</sect2>
-
-
-<sect2 id="non-yuv-cards" xreflabel="Non-YUV cards">
-<title>Non-YUV cards</title>
-
-<para>
-Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <emphasis role="bold">
-software scaling</emphasis> (use the <option>-zoom</option> or <option>-vf</option> option,
-but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a smaller video mode, for example
-352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, this latter method is recommended.
-Video mode switching can be enabled by using the <option>-vm</option> option and
-it works with the following drivers:
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><simpara>
-  <emphasis role="bold">using</emphasis> XFree86: see details in <link linkend="dga">DGA driver</link> and
-  <link linkend="x11">X11 driver</link> sections. DGA is recommended! Also
-  try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.
-  </simpara></listitem>
-<listitem><simpara>
-  <emphasis role="bold">not using</emphasis> XFree86: try the drivers in the
-  following order:
-  <link linkend="vesa">vesa</link>,
-  <link linkend="fbdev">fbdev</link>,
-  <link linkend="svgalib">svgalib</link>,
-  <link linkend="aalib">aalib</link>.
-  </simpara></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</para>
-</sect2>
-
-<!-- FIXME: find a more logical organization for this section -->
-<sect2 id="cirrus-logic-cards" xreflabel="Cirrus-Logic cards">
-<title>Cirrus-Logic cards</title>
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>
-  GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook series.
-  <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is dramatically slow
-    and buggy in 800x600 at 16bpp. <emphasis role="bold">Recommended: 640x480 at 16bpp</emphasis>
-   </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless acceleration is
-    disabled, but then the whole thing gets slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.
-   </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <systemitem>clgenfb</systemitem>
-    driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus unusable.
-    The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID before compilation.
-   </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be used. Can't
-    be workarounded with UniVBE.
-  </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
-    <option>-bpp 8</option>.
-  </simpara></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</sect2>
-</sect1>
-
-
 <sect1 id="features">
 <title>Features</title>

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