[ltp] T23 with external TFT display and video

[Ted Johansson]

You were right!

'xine -V xshm <blahblah.mpg>' yields working graphics in xine, while 
'xine -V xv <blahblah.mpg>' yields the old blue screen.
8 MB of videomemory is obviously too small for the default settings.

Thanks for the fix!


/Ted

Johnny Casey wrote:

> Ted Johansson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to play divx and mpeg movies (using xine, mplayer, 
>> kaboodle) with an 1280x1024 external TFT connected to the T23 at 
>> startup but all I get in the movie window is a blue area. Sound works 
>> fine. If I switch to the 1024x768 built-in TFT, movies works fine. I 
>> am using MDK9.2 with the supplied savage 1.1.27 driver (no need to 
>> replace it anymore!).
>
>
> I have a TP 600 running debian testing/unstable.  YMMV.
>
> The blue area is probably due to the use of XV as opposed to XSHM.  XV 
> is better but requires enough graphics memory to work properly.  A 
> symptom is that the audio plays but the screen doesn't show anything. 
> Since at the lower resolution (1024x768) the display seems to work, I 
> would guess that you don't have enough video memory to run XV at 
> 1280x1024.
>
> You could try seeing if you can use XSHM instead of XV.
> 'xine -V xshm <blahblah.mpg>' versus 'xine -V xv <blahblah.mpg>'.  
> Note that the xine setting doesn't take effect until the program is 
> restarted.
>
> For instance, I can play XVid movies 320x240, but not 640x480, using 
> XV using xine.
>
>> Is there e.g. something in the XF68Config-4 that is not correctly 
>> set, or what can be causing the problem?
>
>
> Not enough video memory...
>
>> /Ted
>
>
> Cheers,
> Johnny
>