[Mplayer-users] Re: video output

Felix Bünemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Jul 21 21:31:20 CEST 2001


Hello Mark,

Saturday, July 21, 2001, 4:52:56 AM, you wrote:

> Hello Arpi,

> Friday, July 20, 2001, 9:10:33 PM, you wrote:

>> Hi,


>>> I have a 1.2 gig athlon and a geforce 3 card.  Mplayer has been working 
>>> great, but yesterday, i hooked my computer up to my tv through the geforce 
> 3 
>>> s-video out.  When i did this, mplayer wouldn't let my run my movies with 
> -vo 
>>> xv which is what i usually use because it's fastest.  x11 and sdl seemed 
> to 
>>> slow to run full screen at 800x600 ( the video kept laggin).  I then 
> triedm 
>>> fsdga which worked great except it doesn't actually fill up the full 
> screen.  
>>> Mplayer takes over full screen but the actually video size is probably 
> only 
>>> half the size of the screen.  any ideas?
>>> 


>> <flame>
>> nvidia sucks...
>> </flame>


>> Xv usually doesn't work on TV-out ports.
>> it's a special thing, handled by DAC chips.
>> TV-out doesn't support YUV overlays.
>> (there is a trick for matrox g400 to swap heads, this way you can route
>> signal from DAC to TV-out... but it's a horrible hack)


>> about fsdga: it's obsoleted, and very buggy.
>> use -vo sdl if you want full-screen with software scaling.

> and use -vo sdl:dga then, it's apparently fastest with software
> scaling.

>> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team


> -vo sdl:dga doesn't work. I have MPlayer 0.17cvs-010620-18:14, do i need to 
> newer version for it ?

do you have graphics card with dga support, sdl compiled with dga
support?

> Mark
-- 
Best regards,
 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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