Topic: 1024 X 768 On Gentoox Home V2.0 Howto (Read 140 times)

Dante_Ali · « **on:** July 03, 2003, 03:45:00 PM »

I've already noticed a problem - for some reason Divx 3.11 encoded movies won't run on either Mplayer or Xine using the xv driver if you're running Gentoox at 1024x768. My guess would be due to a lack of memory. I've tried every setting in mplayer but the only way I could get Divx3.11 to play was to use x11 as my video driver - and as this doesn't allow a fullscreen display it's pretty useless for movie watching.

If this bothers you then just switch back to 1024x576 - which didn't have this problem.

BTW, this is the error message:

Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 352 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 704x352 => 704x352 Planar YV12
[ws] Error in display.
[ws] Error code: 11 ( BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) )
[ws] Request code: 141
[ws] Minor code: 19
[ws] Modules: vo_check_events

Looks like a memory allocation problem of some kind.

XBLamer · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2003, 05:28:00 PM »

Thanks for the update on this hack (I was playing with it as well.) Did you manage to get wmaker to work cause kde is just a major RAM hog and runs to slow?

Also in 1024*768 or higher did it kick into 720P or 1080i mode?

The 1024 * 568 actually looks really cool on my screen especially for playing mpg's and viewing pics. I actually had my wife using mozilla today so she could see mpg's on the big screen (who'd have thought)

Dante_Ali · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2003, 05:36:00 PM »

QUOTE

Also in 1024*768 or higher did it kick into 720P or 1080i mode?

No. Progressive scan support is still *very* preliminary - they are working on it but it will take some time before a 720p or 1080i mode will be implemented in Linux. Check out the Gmane develop forum for up-to-the-minute development news:

http://news.gmane.or...first=1&last=50

Dante_Ali · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2003, 10:16:00 AM »

I have tried to run Divx 3.11 movies under Fluxbox but the same problem occurs - it isn't a RAM problem then, but a video memory allocation problem. Or perhaps my install is just screwed up - I'm going to re-apply it to a clean rootfs and see what happens.

Yes, XBLamer, I've noticed that xbv doesn't automatically set the resolution to 1024 x 576 / 1024 x 768 when using a window manager other than KDE - it just gives a black screen. I'm able to SSH into my Xbox and then type in the following commands to fix it (somewhat):

/etc/xbv/xbv -f -m 3

and then:

/etc/xbv/xbv -f -NTSC -auto 1024 576 10.00 10.00 > /dev/null

But the screen is severely messed up. I'll try to find a fix for it as I too would like to ditch KDE in favour of something faster.

ederpa · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2003, 01:31:00 PM »

I tried this resolution setting using a simpler but probably less consistent method as outlined in my last reply to the previous tutorial for 1024x576 and was again successful. Quickly: 1- Changed the X display settings under KDE Control Center to 1024x768 and saved those settings 2- opened konsole and ran the xbvset patch and answered "0" for the first and last questions and for the question in between I put "-auto 1024 768 9.5 0.0" 3- waited for to xbox to reboot and restarted Gentoox with new resolution. Like i said in my last post i dont know if this will work for everyone but it might be worth a try. If anyone thinks i should post this as a new topic under the heading "the lazy method" I'lll be glad to do it.

ederpa · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2003, 03:15:00 PM »

I have not had problems with divx 3.11 using xv driver at this resolution. I generally start the movie at normal size and than switch to full screen because i have found that if i start the movie in full screen it will freeze sometimes. Have you tried that. I did not reconfiger my config file manually though and used xbvset to get the higher resolution...not sure if that has anything to do with it. Maybe I should post my config file? Let me know.

Dante_Ali · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2003, 03:53:00 PM »

Very interesting, so far I have tried just about anything but I haven't got it to work. So I'd be pleased if you could post your config files.

In particular, these are the ones of interest to me:

the mplayer.conf file in /etc/
the xbvinit file in /etc/conf.d/
and XF86Config file in /etc/X11/

Send me a PM or post it here if you'd like.

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