On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Bodsch wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> am I the only one who wants to play xv accelerated videos in XDirectFB?

I use it sometimes.

> It's really frustrating: I tried everything to activate the TVout and 
> after three weeks and about 20 different howtos I found the solution in 
> XDirectFB (unfortunately without any howto) and now no one is able or 
> willing to help me in the last step.
> 
> Maybe someone could tell me, what would be the normal way of installing 
> XDirectFB so xv acceleration would be possible. Do I have to recompile 
> mplayer and MythTV with special configuration to make it work?

No, but AFAICS only the BES layer can be used with Xv, so no TV-out.

> I compiled 
> the XDirectFB package (CVS - with xorg-6.8.2) against DirectFB-0.9.25 
> (from gentoo portage) and I'm using "matroxfb" as the framebuffer driver.
> 
> For my understanding, the problem has nothing to do with my graphics card 
> or it's drivers. The main problem seems to be that xv acceleration isn't 
> possible without the "XFree86-VidModeExtension" which has to be compiled 
> into XDirectFB.

XF86vidmode is not required.

> But if I try to compile it with this extension, I'm 
> getting an error about an unknown reference from "minitext" to this 
> extension (don't remember the exact message - it pops out after about one 
> hour of compiling).

That's to be expected since XDirectFB doesn't support XF86vidmode.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
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