On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 02/03/2011 11:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series >> >> According to the box, it's a Vision Tek Radeon HD3650. > > RV635 PRO chipset. PCIE x16 and AGP bus interfaces. How much video RAM? > 256? 512? 1024? The man page for radeon doesn't explicitly mention I think 512 MB, but I'm not sure. I don't have the box anymore. Is there a way to ask? > your model number, but it does claim to support your chipset. > > Have you read the man page radeon(4)? It lists all the options. > Perhaps playing with some of them will improve your performance. When I get home, I'll check the man pages there. Googling for radeon man pages, I only found radeonhd that claimed to support HD3650. The last time I had problems, 'Twas recommended that I not use radeonhd, either because it didn't work or because it had been absorbed into radeon. >>> Let's concentrate on mplayer. Does it work any better if you specify >>> "-vo xv" or "-vo xvidix"? >> >>> From the command line I tried >> xv: DRI failure, pixelation > > That would suggest either a bad video card, or the support for your card > is not (yet) complete in the radeon driver. Have you tried a more > recent video driver? I don't know how for sure. If it involves installing an RPM, I'll try to figure out the name tonight. > I haven't asked yet, what version of fedora, and what version of > xorg_x11_drv_ati? I'm running F14 w/ FC 13. I'll check xorg_x11_drv_ati when I get home. > xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.3.20100705git37b348059.fc14.x86_64 > >> gl_nosw: pixelation, but no DRI failure message >> dga: mess >> fbdev: cannot open /dev/fb, no video >> xvidix: pci errors, no video >> x11: DRI failure, pixelation > > Without some sort of hardware support, 3D is going to require a really > fast CPU. What is the processor in your system? 32 or 64 bit? Any > idea what the system bus is running at? My laptop has an Intel Core2 > T7200 @ 2.0GHz. With my video card, HD is iffy at best (playing a local 3.2 GHz pentium 4, 32 bits, with 4 GB RAM, 800 MHz FSB. > small mpg4 file really drags and has trouble keeping up with the audio). > I have no problems with Flash videos, though the quality can vary > greatly between clips (the less the quality of the pics, the better the > video plays, go figure. B^) Flash is supposed to realize when the > processing starts to drag and start dropping video frames to try and > keep up with the audio. At least that's my understanding. I usually > play Flash with my browser, and mpegs and avis with mplayer. > > Also, I have the Adobe Flash Square driver installed for x86_64. It has > its drawbacks (like the memcpy bug that needs working around in > Firefox). You might also be able to play Flash directly with Google > Chrome. I'm not up on what mplayer's flash video support uses. > >> dga: mess: >> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. >> VO: [dga] 640x480 => 640x480 BGRA vo_dga: DGA 2.0 available :-) Can switch resolution AND depth! >> vo_dga: Selected hardware mode 640 x 480 @ 59 Hz @ depth 24, bitspp 32. >> vo_dga: Video parameters by codec: 640 x 480, depth 24, bitspp 32. >> vo_dga: Framebuffer mapping failed!!! >> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. >> Too many buffered pts > > Hmmm. I googled DGA Video, and I found the following snippets on the > first page that came up: > >> WHAT IS DGA. DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to bypass the X server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. > >> However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the X server's video driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system... > >> You should also try if the -vo sdl:driver=dga option works for you! It's much faster! > > Looks like YMMV. > > I tried running my videos with DGA, and I found that I have no support > for it installed. > > I was looking at my X11 packages, and I have the following installed > related to xv: > > libXv, libXvMC, libxvidcore4, xorg-x11-server-Xvfb, xv, and xvidcore > >> I should have mentioned this before: >> The degree of pixelation is not constant. >> The longer I play the worse it gets. >> Rebooting doesn't help. >> Sometimes waiting a week does. >> Pixelation comes in spurts. >> I'm in the middle of a spurt that was >> preceeded by a long period of good video. > > Usually a sign that you're CPU starved when playing video. You really > want to find a way to leverage your video card with a better video > output method. I've been happy with Xv for the most part, but I > *really* like my new GeForce GT218 card in my desktop. Using VDPAU in > MythTV, it plays HD TV like my real HD television. No more pixelation, > no more stuttering. Of course, that doesn't help my laptop where I'm > stuck with this ATI video. B^) -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
