HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)
Ken Mandelberg
km at mathcs.emory.edu
Fri Oct 20 22:53:14 PDT 2006
Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 23:29 -0700, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 00:33 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
>>>> I find that all of the video players (vlc, xine, mytthv) can't
>>>> display
>>>> HD video on my Intel 915GM based laptop running with the i810 driver.
>>>> xine and myth show blue screens, vlc reports
>>>>
>>>> X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
>>>> operation)
>>>> Major opcode of failed request: 142 (XVideo)
>>>> Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I imagine all of them are seeing the same issue with XVideo at HD
>>>> resolution. The problem is independent of the resolution of the
>>>> display,
>>>> and is function of the source resolution.
>>>>
>>>> Any way around this?
>>> Yes, it's in the manual page:
>>>
>>> Option "LinearAlloc" "integer"
>>> Allows more memory for the
>>> offscreen allocator. This
>>> usually helps in situations
>>> where HDTV movies are
>>> required to play but not
>>> enough offscreen memory is
>>> usually available. Set this
>>> to 6144 for upto 1920x1080
>>> HDTV support. Default 0KB
>>> (off).
>> Jeff's advice is correct. I have the same hardware and this will get
>> 720p working beautifully. However, on FC5 with the same hardware, I
>> can't get 1080i playing with XVideo. I am curious how things work out
>> for you.
>
> Make sure you are using the latest driver 1.7.2 for 1080 support.
>
> Alan.
LinearAlloc 6144 got me up to 720P as well. But I'm running the latest
modsetting branch driver
git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
and have the 1080i problem. I don't know the relationship of this to
1.7.2. Any advise?
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