[MPlayer-users] Vidix driver color depth initialization

[Arpi]

Hi,

> The bugreport appendix in the mplayer documentation made it clear that it's
> best to fix the bug yourself - which I did. Well.. at least it works for me.
> The part about sending patches scared me enough not to submit this patch to
> the development list. I don't really know whether this patch breaks
why? it was ok, so applied to cvs. next time please send patches to
-dev-eng, they usually lost here.

actually the author/maintainer of vesa and vidix left us months ago so that
code is unmaintained and no one is interested to catch up :(

> I should mention that, for me the vesa:vidix output works only on some
> files. I couldn't find enough files to determine why that is, but so far
> i can tell that divx files with Planar YV12 colorspace work (at least in
> resolutions below 640x480, I couldn't find any in higher res), and all
> MPEG files I tried don't (both VCDs and SVCDs). MPlayer doesn't crash,
> and it doesn't generate warnings or error messages (as far as I could
> tell from the -v output), but it only displays a few colorful lines on
> random places on my monitor. I tried scaling the MPEG's to 640x480 and
> that actually worked, because I got recognizable output. That output
> though, wasn't any better then the xvidix scaled output. It's really
> green and stretches the left half of the movie to the complete scaled
> size. For what it's worth, I included some info I could think of about
> my current system at the bottom of this email.
Known. Several other users already reported similar problems with ati
radeon 8500 cards. unfortunately no one of the developers has such card,
so we can't even try to fix it.

you should try the vidix drivers from the MPlayerXP fork, it may work
better.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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