[Savage40] SuperSavage (ThinkPad T23) and xv overlay

[Alex Deucher]

--- The Eye <mhellwig at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> I have an IBM Thinkpad T23, which has a SuperSavage graphics chip. On
> this, gentoo is installed, with stock xorg-x11, which is version
> 6.8.2-r6.
> 
> I'm not at all interested in any 3D stuff, i.e. OpenGL and dri and
> whatnot are not needed. What I _do_ want, though, is xv-overlay for
> use
> with mplayer (or any other movie player, for that matter). Using
> mplayer
> -vo xv works, but there is a slight problem: When there is (I guess
> this
> is the right word) panning, i.e. the picture as a whole moves from
> side
> to side, it looks as though the player (or the driver or the graphics
> adapter) is unable to move the picture as a whole, and there is some
> horrible jumping motion going through the whole picture. As in it is
> cut
> horizontally, and the top part moves first, then the lower part.
> 
> A good example to show this behaviour is the teaser for Ice Age 2
> which
> can be found at
> http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/ice_age_2/largeteaser.html
> 
> So I'm wondering. Is mplayer doing something wrong? Or am I using the
> wrong driver and I need that non-standard driver from CVS even though
> I
> need no 3D? Or is the supersavage chip simply not able to do
> average-quality video playback?
> 

I assume you are referring to the situation where you have a larger
desktop than crtc and the crtc panns around inside the bigger desktop. 
if this is the case then the behavior is to be expected since the
overlay has to be re-positioned when the crtc offset moves.

Alex

> I tried using that xvidix thing mplayer has, but the savage module
> for that doesn't work, so I'm assuming it only works on savage, not
> supersavage.
> 
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