From fa3badb131aae40d618079fe9d2e4cc3b3de9607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:59:03 +0000 Subject: Neomagic TV out support docs by Rudolf Marek git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@12758 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/video.xml | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'DOCS/xml') diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml index ef0534012a..4eb41e92fb 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml @@ -2483,19 +2483,49 @@ Of course the important thing is the TwinView part. Neomagic -Tested on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. Its TV output chip is a miserable crap. Avoid -if possible. - - -You must use . The tested chip was capable of 1.333333 -aspect ratio only, so be sure to use the , options and/or the - filters if the box doesn't let you -enable TV output. Maximum resolution was 720*576 at 16bpp. - - -Known issues: VESA-only, 1.33333 limitation, image isn't always centered, -movie becomes 4bpp in every 10 minutes, and stays that way. Frequent hard -freezes, LCD display problems. +The Neomagic chip is found in a variety of laptops, some of them are equipped +with a simple analog TV encoder, some have a more advanced one. + + + Analog encoder chip: + Tested on a Toshiba Tecra 8000. Its TV output chip is miserable crap. Avoid + if possible. + + You must use . The tested chip was capable of + 1.333333 aspect ratio only, so be sure to use the , + options and/or the + filters if the box doesn't let + you enable TV output. Maximum resolution was 720*576 at 16bpp. + + + Known issues: VESA-only, 1.33333 limitation, image isn't always centered, + movie becomes 4bpp in every 10 minutes, and stays that way. Frequent hard + freezes, LCD display problems. + + + Chrontel 70xx encoder chip: + Found in IBM Thinkpad 390E and possibly other Thinkpads or notebooks. + + You must use for PAL or + for NTSC. + It will provide TV output function in the following 16 bpp and 8 bpp modes: + + + NTSC 320x240, 640x480 and maybe 800x600 too. + PAL 320x240, 400x300, 640x480, 800x600. + + Mode 512x384 is not supported in BIOS. You must scale the image + to a different resolution to activate TV out. If you can see an image on the + screen in 640x480 or in 800x600 but not in 320x240 or other smaller + resolution you need to replace two tables in vbelib.c. + See the vbeSetTV function for details. Please contact the author in this case. + + + Known issues: VESA-only, no other controls such as brightness, contrast, + blacklevel, flickfilter are implemented. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3