[ltp] TVout with a T40 with DRI drivers

[Charles Gillet]

MythTV (mythfrontend) does the same thing.  That and the previously 
posted TV-out color inversion bug have been driving me nuts.  Thanks for 
tracking that down.

-charles

René Castberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just thought i should post a solution(ish) to a problem i have had for
> a long time, and that other might also have come across.
> When ever i used 
> atitvout -f t 
> to then play a movie (either mplayer or xine, never tried any others) ,
> the bottom third was cropped off, no matter what parameters i passed to
> atitvout or what resolution i was operating at, fullscreen or windowed.
> What i found the solution to be was to change the video driver in xine
> to xshm(not sure if mplayer has this option) from xv, its supposedly
> slower, but seems to work fine at 800Mhz. 
> 
> Reading the xine faq, this seems to be due to a problem with the video
> driver.
> I hope this is useful to somebody and that i am not wasting every bodies
> time with simple stuff.
> 
> Rene
>