[mythtv-users] FC7 breaks XVideo overlay?

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 16:58:04 UTC 2007


On 9/6/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:26 -0700, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> > On 9/5/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 11:03 -0700, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> > > > Any idea that, even using the hack, and a 5xxx series card, I am
> > > > getting greyscale?
> > > Sure, if you enable the X11 Composite extension with something
> > > like this in your xorg.conf
> > > Section "Extensions"
> > >     Option "Composite" "true"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Or, enable XvMC textures using this in your xorg.conf
> > >     Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true"
> > >
> > > This will implicitly disable XVideo overlay and along with
> > > a few other features like XVideo picture attributes.
> > >
> > > Some Xorg packagers enable the Composite extension by default
> > > in which case you would need to add this to you xorg.conf
> > > Section "Extensions"
> > >     Option "Composite" "false"
> > > EndSection
>
> > I have tried every combination of Xvmc UsesTextures and Option
> > Composite, but still get the greyscale OSD after restarting the x
> > server.  Weird, and doubly weird that it was the transition to fc7
> > that did this.
>
> It's not so weird that it happened with the transition to FC7.
> They probably enable composite by default and they may be using
> some newer nvidia driver which doesn't support XVideo overlay.
> I wish I could help, but those are the only config options I
> know about for this. Maybe they patched Xorg so that you can't
> disable composite?
>

I will re-run the settings and see what is in the log for each one.
No real big deal, as most of my content is not HD (I have the don't
use xvmc for non-hd content switch on), and even so, a greyscale osd
is not that big of a deal.  My bigger concern is the xinerama issue
and not having to specify aspect ration, which causes other trivial
(but worth getting fixed) issues.

Thanks for your help!


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