[MPlayer-users] Play movies without any gap

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:30:04PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:16:40PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> >
> >>Hi The Wanderer!
> >>
> >>On 2005.07.18 at 14:31:04 -0400, The Wanderer wrote next:
> >>
> >>>...*beta*? News to me. I've been using it for literally *years*,
> >>>and I've never had any problems with it, so unless I've just
> >>>slipped through the cracks between universes again...
> >>
> >>It works only with several VOs. However, it doesn't work with
> >>xvidix (the best vo for radeon card owners), and doesn't work with
> >>x11. It generally works, but has problems with video aspect ratio
> >>for some other vo, like gl and gl2. So basically, it's very buggy
> >>and almost unusable..
> >
> >x11, gl, and gl2 are all broken vo's that no one should be using.
> >They're slow and very low quality. If xvidix is broken with
> >-fixed-vo, it should be fixed asap. Or just use cvidix..
> 
> FWIW, neither xvidix nor cvidix works for me; I once got them to work,
> briefly, by installing dhahelper, but they stopped working again shortly
> thereafter (and reinstalling it didn't help). I don't remember exactly
> how they failed before, but I just tested xvidix both as root and as a
> normal user; as root it displays a solid-green window (presumably the
> colorkey), as a normal user it spits out the usual flood of "Error
> occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted" errors and fails to
> initialize. cvidix as root produces no apparent errors, but also no
> video; cvidix as a normal user gives the same errors as xvidix.

Is this only with -fixed-vo? I use cvidix on my laptop all the time
with -fixed-vo and it works perfectly. No root whatsoever
(svgalibhelper).

> I get perfectly acceptable video output with -vo xv, but from what I
> hear not everyone necessarily will - and I wouldn't be in the least
> surprised if many other people had the same difficulties with VIDIX that
> I do. (Everyone else in my household certainly did, last I checked.)

Yes, vidix is difficult to setup properly. However if you can, it's
highly worth it for the speed (unless you have a matrox card, in which
case mga_vid is all you need).

Rich