[MPlayer-users] What -vo option should I use?

Louise Hoffman louise.hoffman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 20:58:04 CET 2007


> love your pc and remove vo sdl :)

Sounds good to me =)

> xvidix is generaly the best choice; with nvidia drivers you can
> probably have gl and xv have as good alternatives

gl is much slower when I use that, and xv uses about the same amount
of cpu as SDL.

When using xvidix I only get sound and this message:

~/tr$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer -vo xvidix t_ninjagaiden_sigma_tgs06_h264.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r22644-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Playing t_ninjagaiden_sigma_tgs06_h264.mov.
ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO:  [SVQ3]  852x480  32bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   2.3 (02.3) of 187.1 (03:07.0)  1.7%
Exiting... (Quit)
~/tr$

If I try to "./configure" it says this about xvidix:

Checking for VIDIX (internal) ... yes
Checking for VIDIX (external) ... no



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