From cdf21bf0f014f8721f8d6e18034beb440644b34e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gabucino Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:23:53 +0000 Subject: ATI TVout stuff added (from Nick Kurshev) git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@2207 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/Hungarian/documentation.html | 7 +++-- DOCS/Hungarian/video.html | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- DOCS/documentation.html | 3 ++- DOCS/video.html | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/Hungarian/documentation.html b/DOCS/Hungarian/documentation.html index 7d83b22146..246550e589 100644 --- a/DOCS/Hungarian/documentation.html +++ b/DOCS/Hungarian/documentation.html @@ -68,8 +68,11 @@
  • 2.2.1.9 3dfx YUV támogatás (tdfxfb)
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  • 2.2.1.A TV kimenet
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  • 2.2.2 Hangkártyák, audio kimenetek
  • 2.2.2 Soundcards, audio output devices
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      Anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ... Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts.

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      2.2.1.A.2. ATI cards

      + +

      +A few word about ATI's TV-out:
      +Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux. +Below is official answer from ATI Inc.: + +

      + + +
      > Hello! +
      > +
      > On your pages you wrote that you support linux developers. +
      > Currently I participate with mplayer project (www.mplayerhq.hu) +
      > I'm interesting with enabling TV-out on Radeon VE chips during +
      > movie playback. I would be glad to add this feature to radeonfb driver +
      > (which can be found in CVS tree of mplayer project at main/drivers/radeon). +
      > Do I have a chance to get any official technical documenation? +       +
      We will not provide TV out related documents due to macrovision concerns. +
      Also mpeg2 decoding is something that we MAY consider in the future but not +
      at this current time. This is again due to proprietary and 3rd party +
      information. +       +

      + +

      Pity isn't?

      + +

      + +Q:What is Macrovision?
      +A:It's copy protection mechanism.       +

      + +

      It means that if they open any TV-out related information then +hackers will be able to disable copy protection on their chips. Therefore +we have no chance to get working TV-out on ATI.

      + +

      What's status of ATI's tv-out chips under Linux: +

    • ATI Mach64 has ImpacTV which is supported by gatos. +
    • ASIC Radeon VIVO has Rage Theatre which is supported by gatos. +
    • Radeon VE and Rage PRO LT have ImpacTV2+ which is not supported under Linux.

      + +

      +From other side - we could have a chance to have TV-out support through +VESA drivers on x86 systems but since Linux has too limited vm86 syscall +- it's unreachable on practice. Finely every access to IO space causes exception +and driver attempts to emulate even VESA calls instead passing them to native +int_10h handler. +

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