[MPlayer-dev-eng] Another SiS vidix issue

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:08:29PM -0700, Jake Page wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Gabucino wrote:
> 
> > Do you want to document sis_vid's features? Then it can be added to the
> > MPlayer documentation.
> 
> 
> How about this for a section in the docs video.html: ?

Should be DOCS/xml/en now, but don't worry, it will be mostly copy +
paste.

> ======
> 
> 2.3.1.2.12.5 SiS graphics chips
> 
> SiS graphics chips based on the 300 (300, 540, 630), and 310 
> (315, 330, 650/651, 740) series are technically supported, however the 
> 300 series support has not been tested.  Also, there are known problems 
> on video with large ( >= 1024 ?) or "unusual" horizontal dimensions.
> 
> A variety of different video bridges are used with SiS chipsets.  The
> SiS VIDIX driver tries to detect the devices connected (VGA, LCD, TV)
> and set up the hardware video overlay appropriately.  Support for multiple 

appropiately, not appropRiately

> overlays is still in progress - for now, to enable the overlay on a 
> secondary output when the primary is being used as well (ie VGA on CRT1 & 
> S-VIDEO on CRT2) you can set the environment variable "VIDIX_CRT=2".

Looks fine otherwise.  Please make a patch out of this and resend it
together with the other changes.

Diego