Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:06:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aviplay with 24-bit color depth? Message-ID: <200110102006.f9AK6qZ08905@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011008125428.conrads@home.com>
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Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> wrote: > Does anyone else have problems using aviplay at color depths higher > than 16 bits? > > If I run X in 24 bits (savage driver on S3 Savage 4), I get no video, > just a static, unmoving, completely scrambled display in the aviplay > window. I can hear the audio OK as the video plays. I've had similar problems on my laptop (S3 Savage-MX chip, 8 Mbyte VRAM): aviplay worked fine in 16bit, but didn't in 32bit. Of course I wanted to use 32bit. I was using some not-so-up-to-date XFree86 4.0.xxx version (don't remember exactly). Well I finally decided to upgrade to the latest 4.1.0, and guess what -- avifile worked fine in 32bit mode afterwards. So I'd recommend that you check your XFree86 version and upgrade, if necessary. Worked for me. Having said that, now I'm not using avifile anymore, but mplayer (also from the ports) in conjunction with libsdl. It plays literally everything you throw at it, including MPEGs, stuff from Video-CDs and DVDs, AVIs (including DivX, of course) and ASF files. Using the hardware scaling capability of the savage chip, I can play videos fullscreen at just about 20% CPU load (it's a Pentium-III-850). I'm a happy camper now. :) Regards Oliver PS: Well, OK, we still need something to play Quicktime .mov files. A shame that Apple invented yet another pro- prietary format. Maybe Jordan can get us a .mov player for BSD ...? Even a lousy Linux binary would be better than nothing. :-) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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