[MPlayer-advusers] xvidix broken on Radeon

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Wed Oct 15 20:48:10 CEST 2008


Hi,

On Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2008, Christian Ohm wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 October 2008 at 19:29, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > Xvidix on radeon seems to be broken indeed. I'll try to find out why and
> > when it broke. Unfortunatelly I do not know if your new card will work
> > with vidix.
>
> As I said, I don't think some change in xvidix itself broke it, but some
> change in the X driver.
>
> > It is also possible that
> > a) newer cards no longer contain the overlay unit
> > b) newer cards require different programming.
>
> The X800 is a R400, which should be quite similar to the R300s and still
> has the overlay unit. I don't know about the programming, but the PCI ID
> (1002:5d4f) is in some vidix file, so I guess the card should work.
>

Most ids were added without testing them afaik.

Attached patch fixes the xvidix problem for me.


Regards

Sascha


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