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guinness

Member

Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 4

XVideo not working

I have a computer with both an onboard ATI Radeon 3100 and an nvidia 9800 GT. I've tried using both the nouveau and opensource ati driver (radeon) and they both worked fine for a while. Video playback worked very well, was hardware accelerated and vsynced.

Eventually, the xv extension stopped working, xvinfo says no adapters are present. This causes videos in mplayer not to be scaled. They can be scaled with mplayer -vo SDL or VLC but then it is done in software (and I don't want that). I checked and direct rendering is enabled (glxinfo) however 3D acceleration is all software (this happened with both the nouveau and ati drivers). It is driving completelly nuts, anyone have an idea?

Oh, and I tried using the normal xf86-video-ati stack as well as the git one and same thing with nouveau but both produce the same result. The only decent way to get playback is with the closed source nvidia drivers but those suffer from a vsync issue (which also drives me nuts)

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Cheers,
guinness

gentoofu

Member

Registered: 2006-10-05

Posts: 34

Re: XVideo not working

/var/log/Xorg.0.log:(WW) RADEON(0): Color tiling is not yet supported on R600/R700
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled

Looks like it's gonna be a waiting game. Yours is RS780 chipset, which is R600 family. Same family as my desktop graphics. It's fine on my RS690 (R500), though. Dunno about the deal with nouveau,

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: XVideo not working

xv extension does not need 3d. xv should work.
Please post kernel dmesg and Xorg log.

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