[MPlayer-users] cvidix, nvidia, and tv-out?

[Adam Nielsen]

> When I specify -vo cvidix, everything appears to be normal on the
> console where I've shelled in.  The movie starts playing, yet I see
> nothing change on the TV: it still shows the login prompt.
>
> I attached a monitor to this system and the result is the same, so I
> don't think it has anything to do specifically with TV-out.

Yes, it sounds like it's not the TV-out at fault.

> It then starts playing the movie, only I don't actually see it.

Have you tried running mplayer a few times over?  I'm not sure whether
it's a -vo problem or an xv problem, but when I play movies with -vo xv
I often have to run mplayer seven or eight times before I get a picture
on the screen.

On the other hand, with the latest version of mplayer (as of 2004-07-11)
using -vo cvidix on the standard Linux text-mode console on a GF2/MX400
works fine, however as usual the display isn't centred and doesn't
occupy the full screen - perhaps the overlay is actually off the visual
area of your monitor?  Try using rivafb and running a 640x480
framebuffer console then use -vo cvidix.  This worked very well for me,
except that the video didn't sync to the vblank so there was a lot of
tearing.

You can also try pressing "f" a few times to switch between full screen
and 'windowed' - one of these should display the movie in front of the
text, and the other should display the console text in front of the
movie (so the movie is effectively the text background colour.)  If one
of these displays a black area over mplayer's output then it's likely to
be an overlay issue (wrong keycolour, etc.)

Cheers,
Adam.