[haiku-development] Re: ATI Video Driver Source Code
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:21:21 +0200 CEST
Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Hardware overlay is sort of mandatory on old chips in order to
> > watch
> > videos. Not sure if that's what you would do with older machines
> > with
> > these chips, though :-)
> I've considered adding overlay support for the Rage128 chips, but
> have
> not found any code in the X windows driver for overlay support.
> Thus,
> at this point I would not know how to set up an overlay on the those
> chips.
That sounds like a show stopper :-)
> Does the Media Player use overlays? Under BeOS & Zeta using the
> BeOS/Zeta version of the ATI driver, I can play the Memorial Day
> movies
> that came with BeOS R5.0; but under Haiku these movies do not play
> using the Haiku Media Player. I believe that these movies are AVI
> format.
The Haiku MediaPlayer does not yet use overlay - you would need to use
VLC to test this.
Bye,
Axel.
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