Re: via cle266 and xv

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On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 17:20, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> --- Bret Hughes <bhughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am trying to configure a fedora 1 machine to, among other things,
> > use
> > hardware decoding for mpegs. We use mplayer on ati and proSavage
> > chipsets with no problem using -v0 xv flags to tell mplayer to use
> > xvideo extensions.

> > Any tips?  I found a thread about rawhide having updated XFree rpms
> > but
> > it did not sound like this was fixing anything like this so I have
> > not
> > tries it
> 
> I'm not sure what version of the via driver was included in fedora, but
> the initial drop from via was pretty buggy.  the version in cvs and the
> one here are substantially better.  also, if you are using a KM/N chip
> Xv support was not added until recently.
> 
> See this page for more info and newer versions of the driver:
> http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

Thanks Alex what are the odds that a mandrake src.rpm will build on a
fedora box?  I will try it later tonight.  Right now I am in the middle
of blowing a rh9 install on the box over the fedora install (sigh).


Bret 


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