On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:28:29 +1300 (NZDT) Andre Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > on my gateway laptop, graphics chip s3 savage ix/mv i have tvout. xfree > > 4.3. running at 800x600 (ie closish to pal). this works fine, and shows > > the desktop, although its not that sharp (surprise surprise). using > > composite video (tv has no s-video in, lappie has no s-video out) > > > > however when I play a movie file using xine or mplayer, either full > > screen or windowed, it just shows a blue expanse, like a windows BSOD > > but without the informative messages. > > > > any ideas whats going on here? i have tried ntsc and pal output, and two > > different movie files (one .avi and one .mov) > > > > both play fine in the lcd screen attached to the laptop, but > > unfortunately it ain't 29 inches and the viewing angle is only so-so. > > also to get it close enough to the stereo to plug in the sound it is too > > far away from the sofa to be seen at all! > > The blue screen is related to using the Xvideo extension. Xvideo (xv) > allows software to write directly to video memory data that need colour > space conversion (ie: YUV data instead of RGB). The blue window is what > X-Windows uses in its own internal memory (I'm not too sure about that > side of it). Most modern video cards can do all kinds of this stuff in > hardware, which is obviously faster. It would seem that your video card > doesn't support xv on the second head (tv-out) - I think this is quite > common. To confirm if this is the problem, try running mplayer as: > mplayer -vo x11 filename.avi > That will force it to do the colour conversion in software. If that works, > then it may be okay to just use that when you want TV-out (Since you're > probably not using the laptop for other things at the same time, so > wasting some CPU doing colour conversion isn't a big deal), or possibly > there are some different drivers to help you. > excellent, will try this tonight > Andre > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
