[MPlayer-users] new option -xinerama

[dan carter]

Hmm, you mentioned you had a ATI rage fury pro?

I think NVidia cards are the only ones that do hardware acelleration on 
the 2nd head.  Try running with -vo:x11 .


Tom Bednarchuk wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> So I've tried the non-xinerama setup that you describe but although I can
> start it up and hear the audio, the video won't play. I get a frozen
> picture. I'm still new with X and LINUX in general. Do you have any hints ?
> 
> Thanks so far
> 
> Tom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dan carter" <dcarter at waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
> To: <mplayer-users at mplayer.dev.hu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] new option -xinerama
> 
> 
> 
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>Tom Bednarchuk wrote:
>>
>>>Has this been put into CVS ?
>>>
>>The -xineramascreen option is.
>>
>>
>>>Also, will this work with non-xinerama but
>>>dual-head setups?
>>>
>>The -xineramascreen option wont work in that setup.
>>
>>
>>>I don't like xinerama for the irritating way it trys
>>>to put everything in the middle of the virtual screen.
>>>
>>It sounds like you are running an old non-xinerama aware window manager.
>>  Try updating your window manager or change to KDE or WindowMaker to
>>resolve the window in middle of two screens problem.
>>
>>
>>>I'd like to be
>>>able to play video on display0 and control it from the console on
>>>display1. Possible ?
>>>
>>Well you do not mention the running the GUI, and doing so would
>>complicate things.  It is possible to do what you want with a GUI, but i
>>don't think the mplayer GUI currently supports it.
>>
>>It is quiet easy to run mplayer on screen 1 and have the movie appear on
>>screen 2, or vice versa, here is how i do it.
>>
>>In a xinerama setup i have my xterm on screen 1 and i run mplayer with
>>the "-xineramascreen 1" option so that it displays on screen 2.
>>
>>In a non xinerama setup i set the DISPLAY environment variable in my
>>shell to the other screen and then run mplayer.  e.g. export DISPLAY=:0.1
>>
>>In both these cases i can control mplayer from the xterm on screen 1 (my
>>CRT), and the video displays on screen 2 (my TV)
>>
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