Searching for therbest Video (Movie) setup

[hal2100]

Hello,

I have a mainboard with a 780G chipset with integrated HD3200.
Right now I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 with the fglrx driver and Texturedvideo enabled (or so I think).

But the problem is that I have horrible tearing while watchin a movie. It seems like fglrx has problems with the vsync and video_sync.

My question is now if the open driver radeon/radeonhd have the vsync better implemented, and how I can improve my situation. With fglrx I tried every option I could find on this topic.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

HAL

[d2kx]

Did you try

Option "TexturedVideoSync"?

I have been reading several posts about this issue recently and I guess it will be fixed in the next Catalyst release or so.

[hal2100]

Here is part of my xorg.conf...

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "EnableMonitor" "crt1,tmds2i"
	Option	    "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
	Option      "TexturedVideo" "on"
	Option      "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
	Option      "VideoOverlay" "off"
	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
	Option "Textured2D" "on"
	Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
	Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "disable"
	Option "XVideo" "Enable"
	Option "RENDER" "1"
	Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
EndSection

As you can see, I already tried everything.

[Maxei]

Here is part of my xorg.conf...

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "EnableMonitor" "crt1,tmds2i"
	Option	    "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
	Option      "TexturedVideo" "on"
	Option      "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
	Option      "VideoOverlay" "off"
	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
	Option "Textured2D" "on"
	Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
	Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "disable"
	Option "XVideo" "Enable"
	Option "RENDER" "1"
	Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
EndSection

As you can see, I already tried everything.

I also have the same HD3200 chipset and tested the proprietary driver, so I can confirm what you said. Basically, there is no hardware acceleration support. I am using the vesa driver because it is "less worse" than the proprietary fglrx driver. I am betting on the radeonhd driver, hopefully they will get there someday latter this year

[legume]

I've just got a HD3850 and using 8.6 XV works for me - it doesn't vsync though and it has crashed on me - rarely.

If you use mplayer there is a way to get some GPU accel and vsync with its' gl driver.

Set vsync to on in 3d-> more options in amdccle and then do something like -

mplayer -vo gl:yuv=4:lscale=1

[Maxei]

I've just got a HD3850 and using 8.6 XV works for me - it doesn't vsync though and it has crashed on me - rarely.

If you use mplayer there is a way to get some GPU accel and vsync with its' gl driver.

Set vsync to on in 3d-> more options in amdccle and then do something like -

mplayer -vo gl:yuv=4:lscale=1

Yes, I believe that the new 8.6 driver supports your hd3850, but in my experience, this driver does not provide hardware acceleration for the integrated 780G aka hd3200. I was told that the radeonhd is the one to go for the 780g chipset. I will try that latter.

[bridgman]

Maxei, who is telling you that fglrx has no acceleration for the 780G ? Support for the 780 has been there for months... maybe 6 months now, I forget.

[greg]

Yes, but fglrx does not support the video decoder in the newer ATI chipsets. It wouldn't make much sense anyway, there's no proper API for it yet.

[bridgman]

Agreed, but wasn't Maxei talking about basic things like 2d and 3d acceleration ?

[Vighy]

Yes, but fglrx does not support the video decoder in the newer ATI chipsets. It wouldn't make much sense anyway, there's no proper API for it yet.

exactly... which ones?