ATI Hardware acceleration issue

Roland Staring roland.staring at surfnet.nl
Tue Jun 4 10:24:44 CEST 2002


Hi,

I have the following setup:
- W2000
- S3 Inc. Savage graphics card 
- DirectX 8.1
- vlc 0.4.0

I can't get hardware overlay to work. I added a subtree (concerning the
DirectDraw Devices) of the dxcapsviewer utility.

Roland

> 
> On Wednesday 08 May 2002 15:42, fates-w at attbi.com wrote:
> > I am using vlc-0.3.1-win32.exe on Win200 and vls on
> > RH7.2 system.  VLC works fine under Linux. Windows has a
> > problem. I am using ATI All In Wonder card rage128 under
> > Win200-SP2 and directx 8.1. I can get vlc to show the
> > video stream by disabling some of the videocard hardware
> > features like directx.  VLC will not display my streams
> > when using full acceleration under the video card
> > troubleshoot settings in display properties or I get a
> > screen with multiple colors in the video output window
> > but no video.
> >
> > I also have the ATI Radeon AIW card 32meg which does the
> > same thing on another Win2000 machine.
> >
> > Is this an issue with drivers or directx problem?
> >
> 
> Well, I guess the problem comes from our directx plugin.
> 
> Could you run the "Directx Caps Viewer" and send me the information
> concerning the DirectDraw Devices ? (dxcapsviewer allows you to print this
> information to a file).
> The dxcapsviewer utility is included in the DirectX SDKs or alternatively
> you can download it from here:
> http://www.unistellar.com/downloads/DXCapsViewer.zip
> 
> This information should help me find out why vlc's directx plugin can't
> create an YUV overlay.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Gildas
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