[Kwintv] New CVS snapshot, preparing 0.8.2

[mETz]

On Sonntag Juli 18 2004 20:38, mETz wrote:
> On Sonntag Juli 18 2004 19:28, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 July 2004 16:17, mETz wrote:
> > > Is there any way one can alter video data when you use the XVideo
> > > plugin? It's by far the best working way for me but it also looks like
> > > there is no way to configure anything (X11 API flaw?).
> >
> > No. This plugin uses Overlay, it transfers the image directly into the
> > graphics card. It's mentioned in the docs, and I already tried tried to
> > grab into an arbitrary buffer, it does not work. Anyway, it wouldn't do
> > anything else that the v4l plugin does. And it runs on the XFree server
> > side.
>
> Hmm, I really hope I get the v4l plugin working with my setup. NVidia
> drivers and Xinerama are not a good environment for v4l and video-overlays
> :( Will play with it tonight and report what is broken on this setup (maybe
> somebody else has similar problems on different hardware).

Tried it, currently filters are not working at all anymore:

kdetv: KdetvImageFilterChain::setupChain(): Building image filtering chain.
kdetv: KdetvImageFilterChain::setupChain(): Processing filter: TomsMoComp
kdetv: KdetvImageFilterChain::setupChain(): Filter does not support input 
format. Chain invalid.

Either the input format detection is not working anymore or the loaded XFree 
"v4l"-module causes problems.

Other than that I have the following problem when using kdetv with v4l plugin 
(forced XVideo + shared mem + overlay if possible):

- moving/resizing/reclipping the mainwindow causes massive desktop flicker, at 
least kdesktop and kicker repaint themselves all the time. When moving the 
window so it shows on both displays or is partially outside the screen then 
this flicker happens all the time.
- moving the window very fast leaves partial images on screen
- popupmenu or prefs on my second display often get overpainted by tv-image
- sometimes no image is displayed at all anymore, resize/move/reclipping the 
window helps

I'm sure some of these are, at least partially, caused by the drivers manually 
copying image data instead of doing real overlay mode (NVidia README says 
this is a driver limitation). I'll try it with a single-head setup soon to 
see if this improves things.

Btw, tvtime works fine, resize etc. caused no problem here. OTOH tvtime is 
pretty barebones when it comes to UI and configurability I think (but at 
least it does scaled fullscreen for me) :)

Bye, Stefan aka mETz