can't play avi file

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/25/06, Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Same here, it plays fine with the nvidia X driver on my system (FC6).
> > I suspect you're hitting either a hardware limit or an X driver limit.
> > What kind of graphics card do you have?
> >
>
> Lonni,
>
> This is what lspci reports:
> # lspci -v
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics
> Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
>          Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC
> [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>          Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4332
>          Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>          Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>          Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>          Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

Looks like i810, which is a fairly low-end integrated graphics chip.
Seeing as how what you're trying to play looks like its 1080i
material, I can't say that I'm too surprised that it won't work on
your system.


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