[Mplayer-users] new mga_vid driver

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Wed Mar 7 16:47:09 CET 2001


On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:32:50AM +0900, Maximo Ramos wrote:
> Hi!!
> 
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:27:57PM +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > > Sure, but mga_vid is (slightly) faster and with my slow machine
> > > every percent is important :-)
> > 
> > Yeah. And please note that we can view movies on console too with mga_vid ;-)
> > I don't want to start X to view a film only ...
> 
> Yes, but how? using VGA console? fb? I only try fbview, it works,
> but while in X it screws up the console if I swith back.
> 
> any thougths?

For example with G400, you can use mga_vid.o kernel module and "mga" mplayer
video output driver on console too, since it's not X dependent at all.
I only watch movies without X ;-)

- Gabor

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