On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:34 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > in striving to get Xv working successfully (given its current issues in > the intel driver), the upstream developers have indicated that a program > called xvattr could be useful for manipulating Xv properties, such as > the pipe used for the video display. This would complement the existing > xvinfo, which simply displays the Xv properties. > > xvattr may be found at > http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml > It's GPL so packaging should be safe for us. > > I would like to place it into our XSF git (I won't agitate to include it > upstream - too much of a headache to argue between GPL vs MIT > licensing). > > I think the appropriate place for it would be the same package which > provides xvinfo. > > If no one has any objections, I'll insert it there soon, maybe next > week.
FWIW, it's been available from http://debian-multimedia.org/ for a while. Not sure why it never made it into the archive, you might want to get in touch with Christian Marillat about it. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
