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On Tuesday 26 April 2011 14:34:05 Indi wrote: |
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Mick wrote: |
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> > On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote: |
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> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: |
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> > > > ...using the directfb for vo gives |
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> > > > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just |
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> > > > like I always dreamed -- but only as root! |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... |
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> > > |
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> > > Oh jeepers, I've made a silly error -- the reason videos were playing |
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> > > so well as root is that root had no .mplayer/config, :) |
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> > > Apparently I just needed to clean up my config file and now it works |
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> > > just fine again with x11 driver. Didn't realize defining a couple of |
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> > > audio and video filters would impact performance that much but |
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> > > apparently it really does, at least with avi and mkv files. Sorry for |
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> > > the noise! |
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> > > |
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> > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a |
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> > > user directfb permission. |
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> > > |
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> > > :) |
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> > |
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> > Just an idea. |
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> > Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you |
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> > fire it up as a plain user. |
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> > |
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> > Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails |
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> > to access the files it needs. |
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> Thanks for the suggestions. |
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> Was going to look into that just now but after updating the system |
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> (and runing revdep-rebuild and python updater and --depclean) the |
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> directfb driver doesn't display properly anymore for some reason. |
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> Everything else seems fine, and videos are playing in sync with the x11 |
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> driver and all that. I have a feeling from what Ive read STFW that this |
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> is going to come down to my ATI Mobility 9600 chipset's incomplete kernel |
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> support and may not be practically solvable to the point of being worth |
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> pursuing. |
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> |
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> I may pursue it anyway at some point in the future but for right |
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> now it's been moved to the back burner for a bit. |
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Are you running KMS in the kernel and have you emerged x11-drivers/radeon- |
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ucode (not sure if your card needs it) as per: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
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Regards, |
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Mick |