[MPlayer-users] Re: Re: ATI Radeon 9000 and tv-out (Sergei Klink)

[Sergei Klink]

On October 9, 2003 07:42 am, Patrick Twohig wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> >>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have an ati radeon 9000 card and I downloaded the latest ati drivers
> >> (3.2.5, if I remember well).
> >>
> >> With great pleasure I discovered that ati provided tv-out even for
> >> linux. So I have chosen "clone mode" and now I have my desktop both on
> >> the monitor and, in carbon copy, on the tv.
> >> When I launch mplayer I can see its frontend correctly, on both screens.
> >> The problem is: when I play a dvd, I can see it correctly on the
> >> monitor, meanwhile on the tv the mplayer window is empty, filled with an
> >> annoying blue background... :-((
> >>
> >> Any suggestion?
> >
> >I'd use -vo gl or -vo gl2, whichever turns out to be faster.
>
> I am having a similar problem, and when I use -vo gl the image is distorted
> and there's lines an all sorts of junk on the movie.  If I use Gl2, well I
> just get really crappy performance (10-12 fps, by the looks of it), but

Hmm, same here(Radeon 9000), except no junk for -vo gl...I'm thinking this is 
the similar "type" of junk that I sometimes get when switching back and forth 
between VTs(although it seems to be partially fixed in 3.2.5).

> crystal clear picture quality.  I'm running a Radeon 9600.  ATI needs to
> get thier **** together and write some better drivers for Linux.

Agreed(see previous discussion) :) So should any other card manufacturer :)


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