| Summary: | Matrox vidix support is sorely lacking | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | h.w.blackwell |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Luca Barbato <lu_zero> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | hoffbrinkle, Thomas.Rausch, william |
| Priority: | Highest | ||
| Version: | 2006.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3456430#3456430 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Screen shot of video using xv in mplayer on matrox card
Close up of corruption (left side) Close up of corruption (right side) |
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Description
h.w.blackwell
2006-07-18 08:56:06 UTC
*** Bug 140929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is an high priority enhancement, I'll look at it soon. is XV really that bad as workaround? Adding my info to this as well. For what it is worth, -vo xv seems to be working now that I've updated to Xorg 7 (although the language is in Spanish; will have to look at that). However, under Xorg 6.8.2, (with dual-head running in merged mode), -vo xv would complain about the system being too slow, the audio and video would get out of sync, and then mplayer would die. The Xorg 7 upgrade breaks dual-headedness on the Matrox GXY0 (400/450/550/etc) series of cards. Info from emerge --info: Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 distcc 2.18.3 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dts dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad matrox mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin opengl openssl oscar oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session smp spell spl sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts v4l win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_mga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY xv does work on my (single headed) system, but I have some kind of horizontal dynamic banded corruption running down the edges when playing video. It looks like part of the right hand of the screen is repeated intermittenly on the left.I wanted to try using the special Matrox module to try and resolve this, but it doesn't seem possible short of completely manually reinstalling the whole of mplayer outside portage. I tried to capture a screen shot for you, but the gimp couldn't cope with grabbing a paused video, so I've got some pictures for you instead. Ignore the broad bands in the blue area, they are just aliasing between camera and screen, but look at the narroer bands on the video, about a centimeter deep into the video (on the left). The right hand corruption is harder to see, it is about a pixel width line and is most visible in the top left corner where all the sky should be blue, not blue with black lines(!). Created attachment 92191 [details]
Screen shot of video using xv in mplayer on matrox card
A picture of a typical video playing, ignore the big bands running across the screen, these are just aliasing effects from the camera.
Created attachment 92192 [details]
Close up of corruption (left side)
The easiest place to see the ends of the bars I'm descirbing is at the top, where they eat into the black vertical bar that is the windscreen support. These dynamically move down the screen when the video is played or paused. Also notice the 'g' from leaving, or Ongar (I don't know which) is repeated in the margin of corruption.
Created attachment 92193 [details]
Close up of corruption (right side)
As described earlier, see the thinner pixel wide lines at the top right corner (this should be just the sky and a tree). these again are present from the top to the bottom of the screen and move down dynamically whilst video is player or paused.
Should be closed as OBSOLETE Gee, y'all. Thanks for doing something about this when we all needed it...7 years ago :-( </sarcasm></rant> And.... this sort of support is why I now use Windows 7 Pro. Thanks, guys. |
