rc-file syntax etc.

[Dag B]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000, Dag B wrote:

[snip]

> > The mga output plugin is not being built, even if I do --enable-mga on
> > the ./configure command line. Manually editing the Makefile works,
> > though... :-)
> > Sorry for not providing a patch. For all I know, mga.so isn't built on
> > purpose, because....
> 
>    ...because it doesn't work at all :) I started mga.so a while ago to

[snip]

I see. I wonder if Mike Bernson and David Barth are on this list.... :-)

 
> > It appears to me that the --vout option has no effect on vlc. Anyone?
 
[snip]
 
>    What exact problems are you experiencing with --vout ? Can you give
> an example where it doesn't behave as expected, and provide with the
> plugin list output ?

I didn't notice the 'score  system'. No matter if I choose X or mga as
the output method, the display became distorted as I explained below.
The fb plugin fails as well. So I figured something had to be wrong with
the plugin loading.
It appears I was wrong....

> css-cat -vaP VTS_01_1.VOB - | vlc --vout mga -
Using Key 1
VideoLAN Client - version 0.1.99g Onatopp - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN

Playlist initialized
Plugin bank initialized
Plugin 0: X Window System 0.1.99g [0x200]
Plugin 1: OSS /dev/dsp 0.1.99g [0x100]
Plugin 2: Gnome 0.1.99g [0x200]
Plugin 3: Linux framebuffer 0.1.99g [0x100]
Plugin 4: Matrox Acceleration 0.1.99g [0x0]
Plugin 5: Accelerated MMX YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99g [0x200]
Plugin 6: C YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99g [0x100]
Plugin 7: Dummy 0.1.99g [0x1]
VLANs initialized
Video display initialized (720x576, 16/32 bpp)
Disabling screen saver
Interface initialized
input: found a PTS, at last ...
Found MPEG video stream at 0xe0, allocating PID 0x20
Found MPEG private (AC3 audio) stream at 0x81, allocating PID 0x81
Found MPEG private (AC3 audio) stream at 0x80, allocating PID 0x80
Input initialized
Decoding: Found MPEG private (DVD subtitle) stream at 0x27, allocating
PID 0xa7
[...mga doesn't work, so it'll use X. That makes sense, as the mga
output is broken...]


> css-cat -vaP - | fbvlc --novlans --vout fb -
Using Key 1
VideoLAN Client - version 0.1.99g Onatopp - (c)1996-2000 VideoLAN

Playlist initialized
Plugin bank initialized
Plugin 0: X Window System 0.1.99g [0x0]
Plugin 1: OSS /dev/dsp 0.1.99g [0x100]
Plugin 2: Gnome 0.1.99g [0x0]
Plugin 3: Linux framebuffer 0.1.99g [0x480]
Plugin 4: Matrox Acceleration 0.1.99g [0x0]
Plugin 5: Accelerated MMX YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99g [0x200]
Plugin 6: C YUV to RGB transformations 0.1.99g [0x100]
Plugin 7: Dummy 0.1.99g [0x1]
intf error: ioctl KDSETMODE
intf error: tcgetattrintf error: tcgetattrintf error: tcsetattrintf
error: cant get terminal mode (Invalid argument)
intf error: ioctl KDSETMODE
error: can't create interface
Program terminated.

Total 0, skipped 0,  crvid 0

{....and this could be due to the kernel version I am running. Or that I
am using the matrox fb and not the plain vesa fb. Right?]



 
> > And what are the valid otions for <method name> in
> >
> > Video parameters:
> >   vlc_vout=<method name>                display method
> 
>    These are exactly the same as the ones you could give using the
> --vout long option. The following two give the same result :
> 
>    vlc --vout gnome
> 
>    export vlc_vout=gnome ; vlc

I didn't understand these were environment variables. Is this expressed
in the documentation somewhere? :-)

 
> > 4.
> > Something is very wrong about how the pixel depth is being deduced. At
> > least on my desktop (16bpp) the client window has a normal size, but the
> > image is stretched to the double width, and I can only see a distorted
> > version of the left half.
> 
>    I suppose you are running XFree 4. This is a known problem, but noone
> here has XFree 4 yet, so it hasn't been fixed. The problem stands in
> plugins/x11/vout_x11.c around line 415 (you can see there's a FIXME tag
> warning that the code doesn't work under XFree 4).

I am running Xfree86 4, yes. 
<voice=hopeful> Anyone working on this? </voice>


> Regards,
> Sam.

Thanks. I still think this project looks very promising.



Dag B