[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] Getting Rage128 cards to work with xvidix again. :))

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 01 May 2002 15:34:03 +0200
Daniel Moreno <comac2k at teleline.es> wrote:

> It has been asked quite some times (one of them from me), but it seems 
> it's not an elite enought question for those gods (aka developers) to 
> answer.

I dont like that every now and then someone is calling the developers
gods. They arent and they dont see themselfs as gods. As it is always
with opensource software, people try to solve their _own_ problems first
after that, they think it _might_ be usefull for others too.
And developing a program in your free time and then getting
flamed because this and that doesnt work isnt that much fun.
Especialy because you spend your free time for it.
Even as i dont write code for mplayer, it takes me a lot of time
just to go trought the -user mails (between 1 and 3h a day, depending
on the traffic), so please stop complaining when someone doesnt see's
your problem or your patch gets forgoten.

It looks like you partitaly understood it by getting your own hands
dirty and trying to fix the problem yourself, thanks for that.

> So, for those with Rage128 based cards, this patch will likely solve the 
> pink window/no window hang. I cannot know if this breaks something for 
> radeons. I don't think it does, but it'd be nice if people with diferent 
> ati cards tryed the patch and reported if it works or not. If it seems 
> to work for everyone maybe it could be included in mplayer. If not... 
> maybe we can do a proper patch.

The problem is that the one who wrote the whole ATI code is fokusing
on his own project (no, i dont blame him) and as it looks like there
is noone else who cares about the code.


> BTW: this patch is to be applied to revision 1.46 (latest one, for now) 
> and what it does is to remove the changes introduced in revision 1.37. 
> All posterior modifications are kept. (definitely 1.46 is faaaaaaaaster 
> than 1.36 (when it works };) ))
> 
> now... let's read that patches.html or something so that the gods don't 
> get mad at me...  :-m

it's patches.txt and maybe you should read it again. Patches belong
to -dev-eng as a lot of developers dont read -users.
 
> Sorry. I'm not going to rewrite the whole message just to keep those 
> dawn elitist arrogants happy. Take it if you want it. If not... I don't 
> think I'm going to have much trouble reaplying the patch to newer 
> versions of this file, since there will be no such versions, it seems.

Looks like you are a bit arrogant yourself....

		Attila Kinlai

-- 
Israel, where the first genocide of this century takes place.