Another ati/radeonhd problem?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
>  One of the applications I've fallen in love with is tvtime which works with my
>  pcHDTV3000 card quite nicely if I'm running the nvidia drivers on an nvidia
>  card.
>
>  But I couldn't seem to make it work even after I had recovered the files so I
>  had yum install it again, no dice.  Running it from a shell gives this
>  failure message:
>
>  [root at coyote src]# tvtime
>  Running tvtime 1.0.1.
>  Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>  Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>  xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
>
>  *** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
>  *** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
>  *** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
>  *** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
>  *** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
>  *** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
>  *** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
>
>  Is this hopeless?
>
>  Is there another tv viewer application that will work with the radeonhd
>  driver?

There is no acceleration or Xv support for r6xx cards yet in either
the radeonhd or radeon drivers.  R5xx cards have 2D acceleration and
Xv support in the radeon driver.

Alex