ATI VideoOverlay Problems

alkalinelito · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: ATI VideoOverlay Problems

Hello, Im having trouble trying to get VideoOverlay (xv) support with my ati card. I always used nvidia, and now ati is giving me a headache. This is for full screen mplayer.

First some info:
Stable x86
xorg-x11 7.2
ati-drivers 8.40.4

I have tried to disable "OpenGLOverlay" end enabling "VideoOverlay". I still cant get it to work!

xvinfo says "no adaptors present"

Of course if i run mplayer -vo gl/gl2 fullscreen works.

Or maybe ati forces disabling xv , and i need to use gl/gl2 ? is this "better" ?

Thanks

This is part of my xorg.conf:

Wojtek_ · Guru Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 397 Location: London

Hi,
It would be a good idea to switch to most up-to-date drivers - you'll have to unmask them. Ati drivers (that is fglrx) have improved dramatically recently so I'd really suggest moving to 8.2. Let us know how it works then.
Cheers,

Wojtek
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alkalinelito · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

No luck i uptaded to 8.455.2-r1 and still have same issue

alkalinelito · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:21 am Post subject:

anyone?

enkil · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:41 am Post subject:

Try using the latest ati-driver (8.471.3) with the ebuild found here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212449

Fixes all problems I had with xv output (diagonal video-tearing, blocky xv output when scaling video) in mplayer.
Make sure you set VideoOverlay = "off" and OpenGLOverlay = "off" and use TexturedVideo = "on" instead. Double-check that the driver actually uses these settings by going through /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.

What card are you using? Are you using compiz or something?