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by **mirv** » Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:04:38

Hello,
I have a problem of not being able to have any video playback (used mplayer,
xine, various other progs) with the same result of no video, but audio comes
out fine. Is this due to the somewhat limited support for the 8500 in X, or
is it just not enough tinkering on my part?

Debian sid, xfree86 4.2.0 (source compiled), kernel 2.4.17 if that's any
help.

Thanks in advance,
mirv

by **Adam K Kirchhof** » Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:10:14

Quote:> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:04:38 +0800, mirv staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
>> I have a problem of not being able to have any video playback (used
>> mplayer, xine, various other progs) with the same result of no video,
>> but audio comes out fine. Is this due to the somewhat limited support
>> for the 8500 in X, or is it just not enough tinkering on my part?
> It could be either one. I thought that the Xv extension was working
> with the Radeon 8500, but ICBW. When you run "xdpyinfo | grep -i xv", do
> you get any output? You should see "XVideo". What video output codec
> is MPlayer trying to use? If you take the default options from
> ./configure , MPlayer will try to use XVIDIX, which I have never been
> able to get to work. If you pass it "-vo xv", it will try to use Xv
> instead, which is much better if your video card and X server can handle
> Xv. Or you can pass it "-vo x11" which should work anywhere, at the
> cost of being slower.

>> Debian sid, xfree86 4.2.0 (source compiled), kernel 2.4.17 if that's
>> any help.
> Hm. X 4.2.0 should have no problems, the kernel shouldn't be relevant
> unless you're using DRI (are you?)

AFAIK, XFree86 4.2.0 doesn't have great Xv support for the Radeon
8500... Check out Gatos for better Xv drivers:

http://gatos.sf.net

Adam

by **mirv** » Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:37:26

>>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:04:38 +0800, mirv staggered into the Black Sun
>>and said:

>>>I have a problem of not being able to have any video playback (used
>>>mplayer, xine, various other progs) with the same result of no video,
>>>but audio comes out fine. Is this due to the somewhat limited support
>>>for the 8500 in X, or is it just not enough tinkering on my part?

>>It could be either one. I thought that the Xv extension was working
>>with the Radeon 8500, but ICBW. When you run "xdpyinfo | grep -i xv", do
>>you get any output? You should see "XVideo". What video output codec
>>is MPlayer trying to use? If you take the default options from
>>./configure , MPlayer will try to use XVIDIX, which I have never been
>>able to get to work. If you pass it "-vo xv", it will try to use Xv
>>instead, which is much better if your video card and X server can handle
>>Xv. Or you can pass it "-vo x11" which should work anywhere, at the
>>cost of being slower.

XVideo appears now (dunno about before...)
I use SDL for mplayer, runs very smooth.

Quote:
>>>Debian sid, xfree86 4.2.0 (source compiled), kernel 2.4.17 if that's
>>>any help.

>>Hm. X 4.2.0 should have no problems, the kernel shouldn't be relevant
>>unless you're using DRI (are you?)

Not enough reading on my part it seems - I was using DRI, it's most
likely I wasn't inserting the right radeon module.

Quote:
> AFAIK, XFree86 4.2.0 doesn't have great Xv support for the Radeon
> 8500... Check out Gatos for better Xv drivers:

> http://gatos.sf.net

> Adam

Thanks! Got Gatos, and the drm_kernel. Video playback works fine now.

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