[MPlayer-users] Play movies without any gap

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/19/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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).

I've tried to do it some time ago too, and did not succeed. I'd
happily update the documentation if someone could take the time to
explain in greater details (on this ML) what you need to do to set it
up properly.

Regards,
Guillaume
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