On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:34:39AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17:26PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: > > Unfortunately with Radeons we currently have 2 problems unsolved: > > > > 1. there appears to be a tiny bug in XV overlay scaling code which > > sometimes mixes even and odd fields at certain resolutions. A workaround > > to compensate for this is to scale the opposite way. This is done by > > xineliboutput option 'Fullscreen mode: no, Window height: 575 px' > > instead of 'Window height: 575 px' (as noted in my configuration example). > > > > Overlay XV uses double buffering eliminating any tearing effects. This > > works pretty good. > > > > 2. the other way to use XV video extension is textured mode. This method > > shows very good results. No scaling problems at all. But this code is so > > new (a few weeks), there even does not yet exist proper tearing protection > > for. > > the first issue has been fixed yesterday! The second one is void then. > Thanks to Roland Scheidegger I now get a perfect picture for all > source resolutions testet so far. > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2008-July/006143.html > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=741778#post741778 >
Nice progress! > There currently is only one known issue left: detection of inital field > polarity. I don't think this is a big deal. After this I can start > productive use of the patch on my living room VDR. > :) > Maybe then I find some time to port the patch to other platforms > (like intel based graphics cards). > That would rock. btw any chance of getting these patches accepted/integrated upstream? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
