[MPlayer-users] xvidix problem with atis firegl drivers solved

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 29 December 2002, Marcel Naziri wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
> 
> i was able to fix my playback problem with xvidix and xfree running with atis 
> firegl drivers (fglrx_drv).
> it seems that the driver reserves the last 5MB of video memory for something 
> else, which interferes with mplayer using this space for DGA, so that only 
> strange patterns are shown.
> I shifted the DGA adress for mplayer about 5MB. funny thing is: the more the 
> dga frame is outside the 5MB border, the more the movie is displayed 
> correctly.
> so the changes are:
> #define FIREGL_MEM_RESERVED 0x500000;
> 
> radeon_overlay_off = radeon_ram_size - info->frame_size*nfr - 
> 	FIREGL_MEM_RESERVED;
> 
> maybe it's possible to add something like vidix/drivers/fglrx_vid.c to the 
> sourcetree with this patch leaving the radeon_vid.c untouched. (so I have not 
> to patch it every time a new mplayer version is realeased :))))
> 
> I could post the complete fglrx_vid.c to someone.... but whom?

Ask mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu, of course :)
Cc'ing.

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