[MPlayer-cygwin] Mplayer on Vista

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:57:18AM +0200, Frank Aurich wrote:
> This means all the transparency/translucency is gone, but even worse is the
> black-out of the display when starting and ending a movie.
> 
> The problem lies within vo_directx, but I'm afraid I don't really know 
> where to
> look specifically. I haven't found much information from MS yet on what 
> causes
> the switch to Vista Basic.

The overlay hardware can't possibly work in that environment unless your
graphics drivers emulate it via 3D hardware (Xgl on linux uses that
approach, though it has its own problems).
Tried just using -vo gl (or -vo gl:yuv=2 for better speed)?

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger