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

[Sascha Sommer]

On Monday 12 July 2004 13:22, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > 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

Vo cvidix doesn't now your actual screen resolution
You need to specify it with -screenw and -screenh.

> 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.

-double should improve the video quality.

>
> 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.)
>

-nocolorkey disables the usage of colorkeying.

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