[MPlayer-users] Radeon HW scaler issue

[john q public]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0500, john q public wrote:
>   
>> OOOOOPssssssss oh no RTFM indeed. Well thank you for pushing back I have 
>> my answer. I can only do it as
>> root but I'm sure I can hunt down the device being used and correct for 
>> that.
>>     
>
> No you can't, vidix does not use any device, it accesses the graphics
> card directly.
>
>   
>> anyway I have a radeon card so I can't vouch for everyone but this 
>> worked great (so far) for me:
>>
>> $mplayer -vo xvidix <movie.file>
>>     
>
> And a much simpler way is to check out the colorkey-related suboptions
> of -vo xv and see which one fixes it, or use xvattr to check which
> setting MPlayer set and set it back to whatever xawtv needs.
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Well can't blame a guy for trying. Even when I have good news (for me) I 
get it. Well this was my
original complaint anyway which is that mplayer no longer resets the 
attribute in question saving me (and possibly other fellow dummies) the 
trouble. So many thanks.