[MPlayer-users] Savage Twister & antialiased fonts & Xv solution

[Marijan Peh]

Previously i had a problem with not aa fonts & lousy picture quality
under mplayer with -vo xv. (Xorg6.8.2, slackware 10.1)

-- xvinfo --
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 60
    operations supported: PutImage 
    supported visuals:
      depth 16, visualID 0x22
      depth 16, visualID 0x23
      depth 16, visualID 0x24
      depth 16, visualID 0x25
      depth 16, visualID 0x26
      depth 16, visualID 0x27
      depth 16, visualID 0x28
      depth 16, visualID 0x29
    number of attributes: 6
      "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 2110)
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 128)
      "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 128)
      "XV_HUE" (range -180 to 180)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_VERTICAL_INTERPOLATION" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
    maximum XvImage size: 1024 x 1024
...
-- xvinfo end --

Notice that XV_VERTICAL_INTERPOLATION is set to 0.
Solution was to get this program
http://freshmeat.net/redir/xvattr/19550/url_tgz/xvattr-1.3.tar.gz
and enable Vertical Interpolation. (xvattr -a XV_VERTICAL_INTERPOLATION -v 1)
now i have aa fonts & picture quality is good. :)