[MPlayer-users] Radeon VIVO TV-Out

[Mikhail Grigoriev]

A quote from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/video.html:
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What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux: 
  ATI Mach64 has ImpacTV which is supported by gatos. 
  ASIC Radeon VIVO has Rage Theatre which is supported by gatos. 
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A quote from www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/faq.html:
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1.8. Is TV-Out supported? 
      No, TV-Out is not supported at this time, mostly due to a lack of
      documentation.
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Is it just me or is one of these documents in desperate need of updating?
AFAIK, Gatos only supports video-in part ov VIVO. (and it works pretty well
I must add). 

So, the above considered, what do you guys recommend I use for TV-out with a
Radeon VIVO? So far I've been running X on vesafb and using DGA to play movies,
but I don't get fullscreen, unless the movie is 640x480 :(
I tried scaled X11 too, but is waaaay to slow even with my 1 gig+ tbirb.

What are my other alternatives? Basically I am just looking to be able to play
stuff in fullscreen regardless of resolution... 
Will vesa output let me do that? 
Will radeon_vid work with a VIVO (Rage Theater based) radeon? Do I have to give up
framebuffer to use it?

Thanks in advance,
Mag.