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authorgabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2001-11-06 18:20:41 +0000
committergabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2001-11-06 18:20:41 +0000
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Applied Nick Kurshev's patch
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@@ -671,6 +671,9 @@ in vm86 mode).<BR>
<b>What are minuses:</b><BR>
- It works only on <b>x86 systems</b>.<BR>
- <b>It's the slowest driver</b> from all the available ones for MPlayer.<BR>
+ (But only if your card doesn't support <b>DGA mode</b> - otherwise this
+ driver is comparable by speed with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> ones.<BR>
+
- It can be used only by <b>ROOT</b>.<BR>
- Currently it's available only for <b>Linux</b>.<BR>
- It <b>doesn't use</b> any <b>hardware accelerations</b> (like YUV overlay or hw scaling).<BR>
@@ -679,13 +682,13 @@ in vm86 mode).<BR>
<P>
<TABLE BORDER=0>
<TD COLSPAN=4><P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>These switches of command line currently are available for VESA:</B></P></TD><TR>
-<TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo vesa:opts</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>
-<FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>will be implemented soon. (Will specify mode parameters such as refresh rate, interlacing, doublescan and so on. Samples: i43, 85, d100)</TD><TR>
+<TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vo vesa:opts</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>currently recognized: <b>dga</b> to force dga mode and <b>nodga</b> to disable dga mode. Note: you may omit these parameters to enable <b>autodetect</b> of dga mode. (In the future also will specify mode parameters such as refresh rate, interlacing, doublescan and so on. Samples: i43, 85, d100)</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-screenw, -screenh, -bpp</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>force userdefined mode</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-x, -y</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>set userdefined prescaling</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>enables userdefined prescaling</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fs</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>scales image to fullscreen</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-fs -zoom</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>scales userdefined prescaling to fullscreen</TD><TR>
+<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-double</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>enables double buffering mode. (Available only in DGA mode). Should be slower of single buffering, but has no flickering effects.</TD><TR>
</TABLE>
</P>
@@ -837,6 +840,9 @@ chips with 64 - 128-bit access) so it's not bottleneck for them. There are no
limitations on which video mode can be displayed on your TV (like on other
cards) so you can use <b>any video mode</b> on your <b>TV</b> (from
<b>320x200</b> up to <b>1024x768</b>).<br>
+From other side (it's known at least for <b>Radeons</b>) there is <b>DGA</b>
+mode which is detected automatically and in this case you'll get comparable
+with <b>-vo dga</b> and <b>-vo fbdev</b> drivers speed.<br>
Only thing you need to do - <b>have TV connector plugged in before booting your
PC</b> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST procedure.
</P>