[MPlayer-users] Xv non-functional after running mplayer -vo xvidix

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 24 November 2002, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> After viewing video using mplayer-0.90pre10's xvidix driver any
> attempt to use Xv (including mplayer -vo xv) results in a black
> display.  Box has a Radeon 7500 M (pciid 1002:4c57), a suse-7.3
> based dist and xf86 4.2.0 w/ suse's patches and the ft2 backend.
 
Huh? I thought that was fixed. There was exactly the same problem with
Mach64 chips once, but it is fixed by saving and restoring some registers
(I don't remember the details). I guess your Radeon needs to have more
values saved and restored.

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