From 033fc8c6dd130df730215da4f2f78033153f3033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:31:35 +0000 Subject: Remove outdated and superfluous video cards section. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@21155 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/install.xml | 153 ------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 153 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml index 0353317183..0f9ca74d97 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml @@ -86,159 +86,6 @@ answers. - -Video cards - - -There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has -hardware scaling and YUV acceleration support, -the other cards don't. - - - - -YUV cards - - -They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in -their memory, with small CPU usage (even when -zooming), thus fullscreen is nice and very fast. - - - - Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards: although a - Vidix driver is provided, it is recommended to - use the mga_vid module instead, for it works much better. - Please see the mga_vid section about its - installation and usage. It is important to do these steps - before compiling MPlayer, - otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the - Matrox TV-out section. - If you don't use Linux, your only - possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the VIDIX section. - - - 3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards: please see - tdfxfb section in order to gain big speedup. - It is important to do these steps before - compiling MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be - built. - If you use X, use at least 4.2.0, as 3dfx Xv - driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier releases. - - - ATI cards: VIDIX - driver is provided for the following cards: - Radeon, Rage128, Mach64 (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98). - Also see the ATI cards section of the TV-out documentation, - to know if you card's TV-out is supported under Linux/MPlayer. - - - S3 cards: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have - hardware acceleration. Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are - buggy. Savage chips have problems with YV12 display, see S3 Xv - section for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware support. - - - nVidia cards: may or may not be good choice for video playing. - If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work without bugs. - the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support - hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards. You have - to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. - See the nVidia Xv driver section for details. Please also check - the nVidia TV-out section if you wish to - use a TV. - - - 3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3: a VIDIX driver - is provided (pm3_vid). Please see the VIDIX section - for details. - - - Other cards: none of the above? - - - Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware - acceleration. See the Xv section for details. - - - If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under - your operating system :( If hardware scaling works under Windows, it - doesn't mean it will work under Linux or other operating system, it depends on - the drivers. Most manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release - specifications of their chips - so you are unlucky if using their cards. - See . - - - - - - - - - -Non-YUV cards - - -Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling -software scaling (use the or option, -but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a smaller video mode, for example -352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, this latter method is recommended. -Video mode switching can be enabled by using the option and -it works with the following drivers: - - - using XFree86: see details in DGA driver and - X11 driver sections. DGA is recommended! Also - try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better. - - - not using XFree86: try the drivers in the - following order: - vesa, - fbdev, - svgalib, - aalib. - - - - - - - -Cirrus-Logic cards - - - GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook series. - - - XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is dramatically slow - and buggy in 800x600@16bpp. Recommended: 640x480@16bpp - - - XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless acceleration is - disabled, but then the whole thing gets slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo. - - - FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the clgenfb - driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus unusable. - The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID before compilation. - - - VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be used. Can't - be workarounded with UniVBE. - - - SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with - . - - - - - - - - Features -- cgit v1.2.3