[MPlayer-DOCS] letter to distro mplayer packagers?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:50:42AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:46:30AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> > 
> > > The defaults MPlayer uses have been carefully chosen, there should be
> > > no need to ship more than the default config file where all entries are
> > > commented out. To further complicate matters there are multiple copies
> > > of the example config file scattered over the packaging patch.
> > 
> > This doesn't work. Here mplayer doesn't start, same for gmplayer.
> > 
> > ,----
> > | ==========================================================================
> > | open: No such file or directory
> > | vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
> > | open: No such file or directory
> > | vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
> > | ==========================================================================
> > | VO: [3dfx] 672x288 => 672x288 Planar YV12 
> > | Couldn't open /dev/3dfx
> > `----
> 
> This looks like a bug in the 3dfx video output driver.  It should fall
> back on other video output drivers but apparently doesn't.

This is fixed in CVS since yesterday, the 3dfx video output driver now
has a proper uninit routine and falls back on other video output drivers
as it should.

Diego