HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 23:29 -0700, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 00:33 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> >> I find that all of the video players (vlc, xine, mytthv) can't  
> >> display
> >> HD video on my Intel 915GM based laptop running with the i810 driver.
> >> xine and myth show blue screens, vlc reports
> >>
> >> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for  
> >> operation)
> >>    Major opcode of failed request:  142 (XVideo)
> >>    Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
> >>
> >>
> >> I imagine all of them are seeing the same issue with XVideo at HD
> >> resolution. The problem is independent of the resolution of the  
> >> display,
> >> and is function of the source resolution.
> >>
> >> Any way around this?
> >
> > Yes, it's in the manual page:
> >
> >        Option "LinearAlloc" "integer"
> >               Allows  more memory for the
> >               offscreen  allocator.  This
> >               usually helps in situations
> >               where   HDTV   movies   are
> >               required  to  play  but not
> >               enough offscreen memory  is
> >               usually available. Set this
> >               to 6144 for upto  1920x1080
> >               HDTV  support.  Default 0KB
> >               (off).
> 
> Jeff's advice is correct. I have the same hardware and this will get  
> 720p working beautifully. However, on FC5 with the same hardware, I  
> can't get 1080i playing with XVideo. I am curious how things work out  
> for you.

Make sure you are using the latest driver 1.7.2 for 1080 support.

Alan.