[MPlayer-dev-eng] specify the xv port to be used

Alex Beregszaszi alex at fsn.hu
Sat Sep 6 01:26:41 CEST 2003


Hi,

> This little patch to the file main/libvo/xv_vo.c permits a user to
> specify the output port for the xv device. It won't be useful for most
> users, so why will you ask me?
> 
> Because those annoying nvidia drivers sometimes show a blue window
> instead of the movie, using another port than the default overlay one
> corrects this problem without restarting X :)
Attached a better patch, however, I reject to commit this _now_.
Because if you set a wrong port, an X11 error occur, that means that
MPlayer will exit with abort() e.g. Signal 6,
without correct error description.

-- 
Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu>
(MPlayer Core Developer -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)
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