[MPlayer-users] Too many video packets in the buffer

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 07/14/2009 09:55:57 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach <geoff <at> hughes.net> writes:
> 
> > geoff <at> pvr[110]->mplayer -mc 0 -autosync 30  -ao alsa -vo x11
> 
> vo x11 is also a good candidate for performance problems.
> Why do you use it?

Carl, thanks for asking. It seemed like a good idea at the time (tm). 
Actually, as I recall it was the only one that produced video. If that 
was right then, it certainly is wrong now.

mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r29251-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
    vdpau   VDPAU with X11
    x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
    xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
    gl  X11 (OpenGL)
    gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
    fbdev   Framebuffer Device
    fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
    v4l2    V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
    xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
    cvidix  console VIDIX
    null    Null video output
    mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
    png PNG file

In addition to X11, gl and gl2 produced video, so I'll be trying these. 

Question: should any of the other drivers work on my environment (to 
Sony LCD via HDMI)? Should any of them be better choices, assuming that 
I could get them running?
 
Thanks.