[MPlayer-users] Horizontal lines

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 20:44, kunt1z wrote:
> Giacomo Comes ha scritto:
[...] 
> >I assume that the difference in the two istances are due to different vo.
> >Usually the first instance uses xv and the second x11 because xv is already
> >used (check the output).
> >If this is the case then using -vo x11 will make mplayer work for
> >the first instance too. But this is only a workaround. Really you
> >should find a way to use -vo xv (may be with -norct as suggested in
> >the other post).
>
> With the -nortc options nothing changes.
> Here's the mplayer output of the first instance:
> 
> $ mplayer myfile.avi
> MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
[...]
> VO: [xv] 672x288 => 672x288 Planar YV12
> A:  11.5 V:  11.5 A-V: -0.020 ct: -0.039 288/288  6%  0%  0.8% 8 0
> [1]+  Stopped                 mplayer myfile.avi  =============> HERE I 
> STOPPED THE PROCESS (CTRL + Z)
> 
> Here's the output of the second instance of mplayer, opened in a new shell:
> 
> $ mplayer myfile.avi
> MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
[...]
> Xv: could not grab port 53
[...]
> VO: [xv] 672x288 => 672x288 Planar YV12
> alsa-uninit: pcm closed 0.009 ct: -0.041 172/172  8%  4%  0.6% 12 0

Well, obviously it has something to do with the Xv port you're using.
Check the output of xvinfo for available port numbers and use a different
one.

Regards,
R.

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