[MPlayer-users] mplayer w/o X?

[Curtis Magyar]

I get the best results doing this on my ATI Radeon (7200) using directfb
& vidix.  I believe vidix supports nvidia chipsets too, but I've never
owned one myself.  To play something I use:

mplayer -vo directfb:vidix filename

That is not the only vo device you can use, there's sdl, fbdev, svga,
vesa, cvidix, ggi, etc which all do not require X to be running. 
DirectFB & vidix is a good combo though, because directfb will allow
vidix to use some hardware acceleration features of your card (Or it
should anyway).  Try "mplayer -vo help" for a list of available devices.

Good luck.

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Curtis Magyar 



On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 03:00, Andrew J. Yeckel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >From reading the documentation on mplayer, it seemed to imply that one
> could run mplayer to the TV-out (or even to a regular monitor, but TV-out
> is what I care about here), without the need to be running X.  Is this the
> case?  I think that to do so, I would need to specify some -vo options,
> but it is not clear to me what those options are.  This is on my Dell
> Inspiron 8200 laptop, which has an nVidia graphics card.  I'm using the
> nVidia supplied binary drivers for running X, but I'd like to be able to
> run mplayer directly to the TV-out w/o using X.  Can anyone help me
> through this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --AJY