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

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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:22:34 +0000 (UTC)

>>> [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.
>
> No solution for the Cisco mp4player and I am on Windows in this
> moment, havent yet tested it, anyway, the secrets of xorg...

Well, currently I am using the vesa driver.
With mplayer, I get at least the ordinary movie,
not worse than x11 (IMHO), with mp4player I get the
fullscreen too.

Maybe I should try the gatos driver with xorg as well.

H.

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