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

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:10:27PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 21:59, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > Umm, MPlayer should be able to fall back on other video outputs, if it
> > doesn't work then that output driver is broken...
> 
> It would certainly help alot of video dimensions were known at vo preinit,
> then MPlayer could automatically fall back to regular X11 when used on
> buggy Xorg versions too (currently dies with signal 6). 

This is fundamentally impossible in mplayer, it's the same issue as
the crap that forced us to make the muxer-buffer-wrapper layer for
mencoder..

Rich