VLC + ATI +WIN2k

[Rob Cavicchio]

I'm running Windows 98 Second Edition.  I recently installed the system from
scratch so DirectX is whatever I got with the OS, browser, and various
updates.  I will install the latest and see if anything changes.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gildas Bazin [mailto:gbazin at netcourrier.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:24 AM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: Re: VLC + ATI +WIN2k
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 6:11 pm, Rob Cavicchio wrote:
> > 
> > I also noticed that playback was rather slow in Windows, so 
> I ran this test.
> > Instead of "DirectX YUV overlay created successfully," I 
> got "vout error:
> > can't create YUV overlay surface."  I'm attaching the 
> debug.txt file.
> > 
> > Incidentally, I'm running an older version of DirectX 
> (looks like 4.x), so
> > maybe that's the problem?
> > 
> > 
> > vout: DirectXCreateSurface
> > vout: Dx Caps: overlay=1 colorkey=1 stretch=1
> > vout error: can't create YUV overlay surface.
> > vout: DirectX RGB surface created successfully
> >
> 
> I'm not actually sure that the problem comes from the version 
> of directx you 
> are using because the only thing that is not working is the 
> creation of the 
> overlay.
> Before creating the YUV overlay, we check if the card 
> supports overlays 
> (debug line with Dx Caps) and your card supports this. But 
> the thing we 
> cannot check is which kind of overlay it supports. So the 
> reason why you 
> can't use an overlay with vlc might be because your card 
> doesn't support 
> ""YUV"" overlays.
> 
> Needless to say, without YUV overlay support, VLC will be 
> painfully slow.
> 
> I would be interested in knowing if I guessed well. I will 
> try to find the 
> specifications of your graphics card on the web.
> 
> By the way I can't seem to remember if a directx4 ever 
> existed, didn't it go 
> directly from ver3 to ver5 ?
> Anyway a directx upgrade won't do any harm (which windows are 
> you using ?)
> 
> --
> Gildas
> 
>