Test

[Vincet Osterhout]

there is no native support for Xvideo extensions for the rage 128 chipset
you must use the gatos drivers for it to have xvideo

my 2c

Vince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Flohr" <flohr at itp.uni-hannover.de>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Test


> Hi Doug!
>
> That sounds really interesting.
>
> > For those of you still having trouble with VLC on notebooks, I
> > downloaded xine (xine.sourceforge.net) and it plays VERY smoothly.
>
> Here, my problem starts. I never could get xine running
> on my notebook (A20p thinkpad) using the xvideo extension.
> I don't know what they do, but it is the only program I ever
> encountered which was not able to work with my xvideo extension.
> For example, vlc works just great with xvideo. The problem
> must have to do with hardware (ATI rage 128 mobility), since
> it persists now through many versions of xine / X11 / kernel / distro ...
> I must admit I never tried to use the Gatos drivers, since for all
> other apps I use, the generic Xfree 4.1.0 is just fine.
>
> > I did have to install their build of libdvdcss and oss. Then, I ran VLC
> > and IT played smoothly! There is something about the versions of oss and
> > dvdcss I have...me thinks...
>
> Could this have to do with the implementation of threading?
>
> In my case alsa would be better. Any experience of the
> same kind for alsa instead of oss - or would your observation
> hold for oss emulation of alsa as well? I actually could switch to
> oss since my newest linux install, but alsa seems to work
> better for most other things.
>
> Michael
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