[Coco] MESS aviwrite color palette fixed for composite?

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 02:32:23PM -0700, tim lindner wrote:
> John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone ever try to use the -aviwrite option to MESS to record a CoCo3
> > video mode?  I'm using it, and the colors all seem wrong.  The color
> > palette is set for an RGB monitor and the normal MESS screen is as
> > well, so it looks fine when using it.  But the recorded AVI has the
> > wrong colors.  Anyone know if the MESS AVI capture is presuming a
> > composite video palette?  And if there is a easy way to overcome this
> > (aside from changing the colore palette used by the coco3 software)?
> 
> The CoCo 3 drivers in mess create two views. A "Composite" and a "RGB".
> The "Composite" view is defined first so it is the default view.
> 
> There is an option "snapview" that lets you determine which view gets
> used when maing snapshots or movies. Try "-snapview RGB" with your avi
> write command to set the specific view you want to use.

Hey, thanks...that works great!

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/coco-6809/fresh-hare-coco3-mess.mov

John
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