[MPlayer-users] xv overlay dies with nVidia card

[Oleynik Phil]

Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi wrote:

>>First of al, NVidia driver is open-source. You can run a package with
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>No it is not. "Open-source" is something else but "partly open source".
>If Nvidia driver really would be open source, RivaTV driver developers
>wouldn't have problems to get Video-IN working with nvidia binary
>driver. Now there is, and Video-IN does not work in Nvidia cards with
>nvidia drivers. Please avoid buying Nvidia cards.
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I think there is no need to be so aggresive against rather good hardware 
supplier. Many their
cards are good enough to buy. I own FX5200 clone and have no problem 
with xv, however,
xvidix DO have problems, it is very slow with that particular board.

>>--extract-only
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>or -x. Please notice the files in usr/lib/. If you have source code for
>those files, I am sure very many people would be thankful if you would
>share them.
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>Part of the driver (which uses nvidia hardware) is in .so files, and those 
>are binary only.
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Yes, you are right, I did not noticed it is a main part, not supplemental.

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>>If problem persists after downloading -7174 version of a driver,
>>post xvinfo output here. 
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>I have had the problem with v7174 driver. When I have it next time, I'll
>try to debug more.
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Try to get xvinfo output BEFORE failure and AFTER. I suspect some memory 
leak in driver code,
try to open large movie, maybe it will lead to failure faster?

Philipp

>// jouni
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