[MPlayer-dev-eng] xv fails with "Source image dimensions are too high"..

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:28:46 +0100
Paul TT <paultt at hackerjournal.it> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:30:01 -0300
> "Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet" <reynaldo at opendot.cl> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:39:27PM -0500, j at v2v.cc wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > mplayer refuses to play some HD videos i have on my laptop.
> > > it fails with:
> > > [xv] Source image dimensions are too high: 1920x1080 (maximum is
> 1440x1080)
> > > 
> > > in ~/.mplayer/config i have 
> > > vo=xv,x11
> > > 
> > > since if i run mplayer -vo x11 HD.avi i can play the file, 
> > > i would expect mplayer to try the next vo instead of quiting. 
> > > 
> > > does that sound reasonable? would it be easy to fix mplayer to do
> so?
> > > 
> > > j
> > 
> > Hi J
> > 
> > Error msg clearily states this is a vo limitation, I dont see the
> point
> > where this becomes an mplayer *problem* so there is nothing to *fix*,
> > just use another vo like you did is the correct solution to *your*
> > prob.
> 
> yes, i can see anyway the point of Jay (do you know Silent Bob?
> give him a hello from me :-))....
> 
> if in the config file there is an alternate vo, prob it should be
> correct mplayer to try that alternate vo, isn't it?

That's what MPlayer already do.

In the GeeXboX project,  we use :
  vo=cvidix,vesa
When no vidix driver fit the video card, MPlayer sucessfully fall back
to vesa.

So vo=xv,x11 should work. If it don't, maybe there is a bug in vo_xv
which prevent the next vo to be tried when xv fails.

Aurel