video playback on quad head system

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 12:40 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:13:47 +0100 Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com>
> babbled:
> 
> i have noticed that some chipsets dont support xv overlays on different 
> outputs. my r250 has that problem. xv works on the lcd but not on vga out 
> (laptop) in both the ati fglrx and radoen open drivers. i think its a chip 
> limitation with xv of only having overlay on 1 output not both.

That's correct, as Alex pointed out. However, in clone mode, you can use
the Xv attribute XV_SWITCHCRT to switch the overlay between heads. In
other multi-monitor configurations, the overlay should follow the window
between heads automatically.


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