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helenaryuu

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From: Noiseland

Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] can't play HD videos (1080p, 1280p, etc) with sis mirage 3

hi , I have an modest laptop (1 gb ram wich 877Mb are real ram, Celeron Dual core) integrated video (SiS mirage 3) .
this laptop was a gift from my uncle, so, it comes with windows XP, (in my hands just 3 hours ) in windowx XP with the SiS mirage 3 driver run flawlessly some 1280p videos I have in my USB.
after installing the X server and openbox, but I could not change the resolution. (just gave me 800x600) this is the lspci says about the graphics

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

so I installed xf86-video-sis671, that actually works fine (gave me the max res. 1280x800 and play standard quiality videos, xcompmgr work great)

there a picture
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/screencis.jpg/

do I have to edit the xorg.conf? what I can do?

PD I really sorry about my english (TT^TT )

Last edited by helenaryuu (2012-07-04 21:19:13)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,606

Re: [SOLVED] can't play HD videos (1080p, 1280p, etc) with sis mirage 3

You could instead try the xf86-video-sisimedia driver. Also, install xorg-xvinfo, it'll tell you the maximum video size the thing is capable of. Beyond that, not much you can do. The sis driver is in a bad shape and hasn't really been worked on for years, and sis671/sisimedia are just hacks of the sis driver, which possibly brings in it's own bugs.

helenaryuu

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From: Noiseland

Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] can't play HD videos (1080p, 1280p, etc) with sis mirage 3

so, It's because the driver? mmmm the windows driver was good, is so unfair ....

helenaryuu

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From: Noiseland

Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] can't play HD videos (1080p, 1280p, etc) with sis mirage 3

wooow I finally fix it!
I installed the "official"  xf86-video-sisimedia (I take off thexf86-video-sis671 driver) and change the output "xv" to "X11 (slow)" on the mplayer, now works nice!

Last edited by helenaryuu (2012-07-04 21:20:16)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,606

Re: [SOLVED] can't play HD videos (1080p, 1280p, etc) with sis mirage 3

You wouldn't need to change the driver for that. The X11 output is completely unaccelerated, everything is done in software, so the driver is irrelevant.

I'm surprised it works fine, doing video presentation in software is a big strain on the cpu.