Re: [xine-user] Half video output

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

dan flickinger wrote:

>Generally, I have had no problems with xine playing a variety of formats. I am 
>now faced with a rather odd problem:
>
>I recently purchased a new notebook system, Sony Vaio PCG-FXA59, with an 
>AMD-XP mobile, and ATI Mobility M1 graphics card. XV seems to work under 
>XFree86 4.2.0 directly out of the Mandrake 8.2 distribution. The only problem 
>is the Xine output only shows the left half of the video. I assume this may 
>somehow be related to the fact that my display is 1400x1050. Xine renders the 
>exact same videos flawlessly on a similar setup on a desktop system.
>
>I have a bit of experience, but not much time. I would like to dig a bit 
>deeper into this issue, but I was wondering if anyone else has seen this 
>before.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>/Dan Flickinger
>
Try setting X to --bpp 8, I.e. 256 colours.
On my portable, the XV output was bad because there was not enough video 
memory for the XV buffer as well as the Normal display.
I found that setting the normal display to 256 colours, the XV image was 
in full colour.

Cheers
James