[haiku-development] Re: 3dfx Video Driver Question
- From: Sean Bailey <ziusudra@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:41:38 -0600
On 6/21/10, Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
>> Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Under ZETA 1.21 a video displays fine when the screen
>>> color depth is 8 bpp; thus, I think that this might be a problem
>>> with
>>> the Haiku MediaPlayer instead of the video driver. Anyway, this is a
>>> very minor problem since I think that it would be rare that someone
>>> would select a color depth of 8 bpp in the Screen Preferences.
>>
>> Indeed. It hints to the wrong video color being used by MediaPlayer -
>> but that might also be an app_server bug; at least I can't remember if
>> I actually tested with 8 bit in Haiku (the Intel driver works fine with
>> this on BeOS, too).
>>
> Is it possible that it is the video files that I'm using? Under ZETA I
> use the Memorial Day videos that came with BeOS R5; however, Haiku's
> MediaPlayer would not play those files. Consequently, I converted those
> files to a format that the Haiku MediaPlayer would accept, and use these
> converted files only under Haiku since ZETA's MediaPlayer will not play
> them. Are there video files available that can be played under either
> ZETA and Haiku
>
> BTW, this problem also occurs with Radeon chips.
>
> -- Gerald
>
>
The R5 Memorial Day videos are encoded with Indeo 5 which Haiku does
not have a decoder for. (ffmpeg has only just recently gotten a
decoder.)
You can encode to a format both can read, mpeg1 should work.
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