Bug#238100: XVideo workaround for SDL apps
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:07, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:12, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> >
> >>3) I didn't report libxv1 as broken in 4.3.0-5 ; I reported it broken *for*
> >>*me*, *and* saw that users of other cards submitted similar reports. I
> >>agree with you that it might be problems in individual card drivers ;
> >
> >
> > The information in your original report suggests that there's simply not
> > enough video RAM available. Definitely not a libxv1 problem.
>
> You mean that the available 4MB video RAM were enough for successfully run
> glav under X 4.2.x, but not under 4.3.x ? How come ??
No idea. Maybe something changed in the sis driver; Thomas Winischhofer,
its maintainer, should know.
> >>however, it might also be caused by a new assumption of the libxv1 about a
> >>function which happens to more or less well supported by various cards drivers.
> >
> > SDL doesn't even use the shared libxv1 yet...
>
> Hmmm ... So could you explain why *disabling* libxv1 use (by means of the
> environment variable hinted at in my previous post) allows me to run glav
> successfully (see the error it gave me in my initial bug report) ?
It's an SDL environment variable which causes it not to use the XVideo
extension. It has nothing to do with libxv1.
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