[MPlayer-users] mplayer doesnt play nice with windowmanagers

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:36:00AM -0500, Hunter Peress wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> in most windowmanagers, mplayer fails to go behind other windows. when
> using a pager, and u go to another page, you'll see a freeze frame of
> the movie and not even be able to move it. minimizing too will leave the
> frame just there.

Broken XV drivers I expect. Try with -vo x11 and you should have the
problem go away but then it will be slow.

Rich