From 7a5378e5ded33256f87350320f69ded8156aa291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:57:01 +0000 Subject: Update some old and crufty sections. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@19081 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml | 4 ---- DOCS/xml/en/video.xml | 41 +++-------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) (limited to 'DOCS/xml') diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml index 0882c674a0..9fda222c1e 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/skin.xml @@ -773,10 +773,6 @@ symbols (and thus require a different font). These are the messages that can be generated by buttons, potmeters and menu entries. - -Some of the messages might not work as expected (or not work at all). -As you know, the GUI is under development. - Playback control: diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml index bd45e1e900..2913a82740 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml @@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ framebuffer, and don't ask for it, since it's not an This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler) -support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's actively developed by A'rpi, and -it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both +support, the mga_vid kernel driver. +It has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X. @@ -1502,13 +1502,6 @@ about it to the developers. The right way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver autodetection. - -VIDIX is new technology and it's extremely possible that on your -system it won't work. In this case only solution for you -it's port it (mainly libdha). But there is hope that it will work on those -systems where X11 does. - - Since VIDIX requires direct hardware access you can either run it as root or set the SUID bit on the MPlayer binary @@ -1597,43 +1590,15 @@ has tested it, so reports are welcome. nVidia cards - -There's a relatively new nVidia driver out there, it's known to work on Riva -128, TNT and GeForce2 chipsets, also others have been reported working. - - - -LIMITATIONS - - It's recommended to use the binary nVidia drivers for X before using this - VIDIX driver, because some of the registers which need to be initialized - haven't been discovered yet, so it will probably fail with the Open Source - XFree86 nv.o driver. - - - Currently only codecs capable of UYVY colorspace output - can work in conjunction with this driver. Unfortunately, this excludes - every single decoder from the - libavcodec family. This leaves - us with the following usable popular codecs: - cvid, divxds, xvid, divx4, wmv7, wmv8 and some - others. Please note that this is only - a temporal inconvenience. The usage syntax is as follows: - mplayer -vf format=uyvy -vc divxds divx3file.avi - - An unique feature of the nvidia_vid driver is its ability to display video on plain, pure, text-only console - with no framebuffer or X magic whatsoever. For this purpose, we'll have to use the video output, as the following example shows: - mplayer -vf format=uyvy -vc divxds -vo cvidix example.avi + mplayer -vo cvidix example.avi - -Reports awaited! - -- cgit v1.2.3