HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)
Alan Hourihane
alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 19 00:47:32 PDT 2006
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.
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