[Openchrome-users] CLE266 8MB Shared Memory

[Thomas Hellström]

Dikran Hovagimian wrote:

> Here is the log...
>
The BIOS you got from VIA is apparently buggy, since the driver still 
thinks you have 16384 kB worth of Videoram.

Try setting

Option "VideoRam" "8192"


But beware that 8192 kB of videoram might be too little to run XvMC 
accelerated video, since Xine will use at least 6MB to store the video 
frames of a 720x576 video.
720 x 756 x 1.5 x (xine_frames+3).

xine_frames is normally 8, but if the xine option xvmc_more_frames is 
used to improve playback smoothness it will be 15.

I recommend using at least 16MB of video RAM if using XvMC playback. Why 
on earth try to save money on RAM nowadays?

/Thomas

>
> Dikran Hovagimian
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Hellstr?m" 
> <thomas at tungstengraphics.com>
> To: "Dikran Hovagimian" <dikranh at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <openchrome-users at openchrome.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] CLE266 8MB Shared Memory
>
>
>> Dikran Hovagimian wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>  We are developing a Set Top Box application with limitted amount of 
>>> Memory on the system.  The board being used in EPIA-M2.  We obtained 
>>> a special BIOS from VIA which gives us 8MB Shared Memory option.  X 
>>> boots properly and all normal applications display their images and 
>>> text fine.
>>>  As soon as we enter xine (configured with -V xxmc), we get garbage 
>>> on the screen.  We are only using 720x480 resolution.
>>>  P.S. Non Mpeg2 video streams (from the web) display properly.  Only 
>>> Mpeg2 streams are impacted.
>>>  Can the openchrome driver be modified to allow for 8MB memory 
>>> configuration.
>>>  Thanks,
>>> Dikran Hovagimian
>>>
>>>
>> Can you please post your Xorg log (gzipped) and an output of
>> xine -V xxmc --verbose=2
>>
>> when this happens?
>>
>> /Thomas
>>
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