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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: does 965G support xv ?
From:       sean darcy <seandarcy2 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-29 15:21:45
Message-ID: fq97u9$ecs$2 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 20:51:44 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>> I see some posts about how just changing some #define's in the intel 
>> driver provides xv support. Is this correct? What about 945? Does it 
> 
> You confused video overlay with XV here. XV is just an interface, and
> the hardware can provide XV functionallity in several ways. See below.
> 
>> work with mythtv?
> 
> Yes, for ages. One problem is that recent versions if the Intel driver
> provide 2 XV ports: textured video and video overlay. Textured video is
> crap for movie playback because it causes tearing video. However, it is
> reported as the first XV port, so the applications that just select the
> first port use textured video.
> 
> This is also an issue with MythTV. However, I use a patch[1] for MythTV
> from SVN trunk that makes mythfrontend ignore the textured video XV
> port and use video overlay instead.
> 
> Regards,
> Tino
> 
> [1] http://tikei.de/50_skip_intel_textured_video.dpatch
Excellent. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

sean

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