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

[Alexander Strasser]

Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> 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.

  I don't think so. Also see Ivan's reply. If I am not mistaken
this is a global architectural issue and not one local to vo xv.

  Although I am curious if the files worked before I added the
check as I heard some drivers report wrong max dimensions.

  Alex (beastd)