[MPlayer-users] fullscreen scaling problems with high-res videos - bug?

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 07 January 2005 03:24, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:19:50PM -0800, Jack wrote:
> >Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >>The overlay of e.g. Riva 128 AFAIK can't downscale...
> >
> >Crap.  If that's the case, that would be unspeakably lame.
> >Hardware limitations suck.
>
> Speaking as an owner of a card with a Riva128 chipset, myself, I can
> say-- yes, it *is* unspeakably lame.  But then the Riva128 driver that
> comes with XFree86 doesn't have any XVideo support anyway (I don't know
> about Xorg), and Nvidia's binary driver doesn't support the Riva128 at
> *all*.
>
> If anyone has corrections to the above, please speak up.  If anyone
> wants to implement XVideo for the old and crappy Riva128 chipset for
> some bizarre reason, please feel free. :)

Why don't you implement it yourself?
You can take the nvidia_vid.c driver as reference and I will try to help if 
you have questions. TNT/TNT2 users would be happy if there was xv support in 
the nv driver, too, I think.

Sascha