HD with Xvideo on a Radeon 7500?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:52 -0500, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 22:59 -0500, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> >> I am trying to play HD using the Xvideo extension with a Mobil Radeon 
> >> 7500 with 32MB of video ram. It seems to work at 720p but not 1080i. On 
> >> the Intel driver i810 driver there is a LinearAlloc parameter that makes 
> >> the difference, but I didn't see a similar parameter for the ATI Radeon.
> >>
> >> Is it possible?
> > 
> > Should be, how does it fail?
> 
> On 1080i mpeg2's vlc,xine, and mplayer cut off the right side of the 
> picture with a pink box. 

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462 .

> mythtv just shows a blue screen with sound.

Not sure about this one.


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