[vlc] Re: vlc 0.8.1 doesn't do XV on VIA CLE266 boxes

[Dermot McGahon]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:49:51 +0100, Mats Rojestal  
<mats.rojestal at bredband.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First check if your display supports XVideo with
> "xdpyinfo".

> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just tried vlc 0.8.1 on a VIA CLE266 box using the current  
>> unichrome.sf.net driver.
>>  The same vlc 0.8.1 binary works perfectly on a box with an ATI Radeon  
>> 9200 card, and mplayer -vo xv video.avi works on the VIA CLE266 box, so  
>> it is unlikely to be an xv driver problem.
>>  vlc --intf dummy -vvv --vout xv video.avi
>> results in:
>> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  143 (XVideo)
>>   Minor opcode of failed request:  17 ()
>>   Serial number of failed request:  56
>>   Current serial number in output stream:  56
>>   vlc --intf dummy --vout x11 video.avi

I can confirm this bug. Running with an older version of the unichrome
driver may work. I'm not sure at this point what needs to change: something
in the vlc xv implementation or something in later versions of the  
unichrome
driver. The driver generally has good XV support.


Dermot.
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