video playback on quad head system

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:20:39 +0100 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> babbled:

> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 12:40 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:13:47 +0100 Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com>
> > babbled:
> > 
> > i have noticed that some chipsets dont support xv overlays on different 
> > outputs. my r250 has that problem. xv works on the lcd but not on vga out 
> > (laptop) in both the ati fglrx and radoen open drivers. i think its a chip 
> > limitation with xv of only having overlay on 1 output not both.
> 
> That's correct, as Alex pointed out. However, in clone mode, you can use

yup (as i read after i sent my mail :):))

> the Xv attribute XV_SWITCHCRT to switch the overlay between heads. In

ooh. thats the trick eh? bugger.

> other multi-monitor configurations, the overlay should follow the window
> between heads automatically.

yeah - i was doing clone mode (using laptop to play dvd's on my video projector). but yup - still a hw limit :)

> 
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