VLC 2.82 on RH 7.2

[Michael Flohr]

Hi,

I would like to comment on this issue:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:00:53PM +0200, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:25:36PM +0100, Gildas Bazin wrote:
> > > On Sunday 19 August 2001 3:20 pm, brash wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I assume the developers monitor this list and/or have been given the
> > > > patch?
> > > >
> > >
> > > This patch may (i'm not sure) introduce problems with some video cards, this
> > > is why it hasn't been applied yet. I would like to find a solution which
> > > would work for every video card, If I don't find any then I guess it will
> > > eventually be applied (and we'll see if anybody complains about xvideo not
> > > working anymore for them ;-)
> >
> > I geuss the right solution for now (and maybe for ever :-) would be to
> > add an entry in the settings dialog, list the adaptors found and
> > if more than one allow to select one...
>
> I checked my other system with a Matrox G450 and that one only has
> one adaptor. So the patch would work fine for this card.
> I think most gaphic cards only have one adaptor so the net result
> with or without the patch are the same.
> (I tried to look around for Xvideo documentation to figure how
> things work but so far haven't found anything. Any pointers?
> There must be something around: almost all tools using Xvideo
> use more or less exactly the same code to detect and select
> Xvideo adaptors, formats and ports...)

Point is, that minor differences in code might really matter.
Most programs I compiled, which use Xvideo extension, work
fine with me (XFree 4.0.1 on ATI rage 128 mobility), but
some simply cannot initialize XVideo. They just hang at
the XvQueryExtension() call. For example, this is why
vlc is for me the ultimate choice above xine, which never
was able to initialize my XVdieo extension properly.
And I would definitely like to keep vlc working for me ...

Michael