[ltp] Re: T21 -- RH 7.1 no MPEGs with xmms

[Dirk Husemann]

>>>>> "FB" == Friedemann Baitinger <fb@baiti.net> writes:

    FB> On Sat, 5 May 2001, D. Sen wrote:
    >>  Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
    >> 
    >> > Do you still know which version supported the mpegs? I'd like
    >> to give it > a try to patch that version into the
    >> XFree86-4.0.3. I have also reported > this problem to Tim but
    >> never heard from him (Tim, are you still working > on this?)
    >> ever since. Development of the savage driver seems to be >
    >> 'stable' at version 1.1.15.  >
    >> 
    >> No, I dont. I would think it was around 1.1.11. I have versions
    >> going back to 1.1.13. Even if I could find an older version
    >> that doesnt have Xvideo support, I would be extremely reluctant
    >> to use it because of the scrolling hang bug in the older
    >> versions. I would much rather have a machine that stays up for
    >> weeks at a time than have mpeg support and have it hang every
    >> two days.

... in any case: vlc (www.videolan.org) works quite nicely for
DVDs. You can enable the xvideo output plugin and it works on my T21
with Tim's 1.1.15 driver.


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