Re: TP a22p (Ati Mobility M3), mp4player, mplayer etc

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/13/05 

Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:48:04 -0500

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:12:28 +0200, Heiko Recktenwald staggered into the
Black Sun and said:

Message rearranged a bit for clarity.

> [When I try to play movies on a Thinkpad A22p,] the windows open in
> the expected size and mp4player, etc., just display a distorted
> image in the upper half of the screen. The y axis of the movie is
> only half as long as expected. [I] don't know what it is caused by,
> it happens on FreeBSD as well.
>
> Is Xorg broken, [or] do I have settings wrong?

I've seen this before, but it was a long time ago and on XFree, not
Xorg. It's a problem with the Xv extension and the r128 graphics
chipset. When I was using XFree, I solved the problem by using the
GATOS X module for r128 instead of the XFree standard module. I haven't
seen this problem with Xorg. http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ . As a
temporary workaround, you could use the movie players' X11 video output
instead of the Xv video output. That's "-vo x11" for mplayer.

> There are some pages in the net on a22p Thinkpads, [but] this problem
> is never mentioned [on those pages].

Like I said, the only time I've seen this happen was years ago with old
XFree. 

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