[MPlayer-users] Re: Still can play some avi's with the xv display driver on a G400

[Bernd Ernesti]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12 Aug 2002 12:40:45 +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > it's an Xv driver bug/problem, related to your X11 or your card's fault...
> > > if x11 cvs didn't fix the problem, contact the driver author...
> > > we can't help.
> > 
> > But he said he has a Matrox G400 (original post is
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-June/017450.html)? It
> > shouldn't really have problems with xv now should it? Then again it
> > seems he really is running X from CVS, so maybe that's the problem.
> 
> the Xv driver for matrox is bullshit... i've recently looked at the source
> and it's full of bugs and misunderstanding of the card registers.
> 
> use -vo xmga, it should work.

Which means I can no longer use mplayer, because xmga is a linux only
driver and won't work on NetBSD.

> yes, i could fix those bugs and send patch to x11 authors, but it has no
> much sense, as the Xv is broken by design, missing features like triple
> buffering and direct rendering.

I really wish you would do that, so other non linux system could still
use mplayer, even if that means that it doesn't work so good.

Bernd