[Savage40] xv and mode switch

[Alex Deucher]

--- Daniel Lindenaar <daniel at lindenaar.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> First of all I'd like to thank the programmers for this fine piece of
> 
> software.
> 
> I've got a problem with xv video playback when not using 1024x768. My
> 
> laptop has an LCD of this size, but for playing back videos, 800x600 
> would be sufficient and I think this will lighten the processor load
> as 
> well as giving better TV-out picture.
> 
> However, when I let mplayer switch video mode for me or when I do it 
> myself and start mplayer after this, I get some blue planes
> overlapping 
> the video on screen.
> 
> I hope anyone can help solve this problem or maybe explain that there
> is 
> no point in a lower video playback resolution.

what version of the driver are you using?  the version that shipped
6.8.1/2 had problems with re-initializing the overlay after a mode
switch (it didn't).  It's fixed in xorg from cvs.  Also, using the
overlay in conjunction with the panel scaler is somewhat broken with
prosavage chips ATM.

Alex

> 
> greetings,
> Daniel



	
		
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