[MPlayer-users] ATI Radeon 9000 and tv-out

[Fabio Stumbo]

> > The problem is: when I play a dvd, I can see it correctly on the monitor, 
> > meanwhile on the tv the mplayer window is empty, filled with an annoying 
> > blue background... :-((
> > 
> > Fabio
> > 
> 
> RTFM at section 2.3.1.2.11. Quote:
> 
> "The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support hardware
> acceleration on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue
> colored window instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in
> handy, but you need powerful CPU to use software scaling. Don't use the
> SDL driver's software output+scaler, it has worse image quality!"

Well, sorry: I looked in the faq and I had a quick glance at the docs, but 
I missed that paragraph... :-((

In any case, I still miss a point: is it the card that has no builtin 
hardware accelleration on TV, or is it the driver provided by ati?
In the second case, maybe I can solve the problem setting the tv as 
primary screen. But it seems to me to naif to work...

Now that I think at this, I realized that under windows I have the 
following: if I use clone mode, dvd reproduction is bad, if I use only 
tvout (using the tv at boot time), it is ok. Does this has any meaning?

Thank for your attention

Fabio