[MPlayer-users] Optimize video output from tv card

[Michael]

Just want to say thank you. I will need some time to try to get it working, 
but I think I got the most important points.

Thanks

Michael

Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote:

> Reimar Döffinger pisze:
> 
>>>> Anywhere where I can find a simple tutorial on how to setup a slim X
>>>> server without gnome/gdm or KDE/kdm? In the end I just need the major
>>>> part of the screen been used up my mplayer (640x420) and the rest
>>>> (640x60) as information display via python SDL.
>>> You must decide first what do you want:
>>> 1. complete *Desktop Enviroment* with "desktop integration" or
>>> 2. simplistic window manager and nothing more
>> 
>> You need neither, you can just install the x server and pass the
>> application name to xinit (or add it in .xinitrc).
> 
> I'm doing it with MPlayer VDPAU playback because mu GFX card has 256MiB
> only and without that it wont work in many cases ( low memory VDPAU error
> ):
> 
> gksudo xhost +; sudo xinit -e /usr/local/bin/mplayer -vo vdpau -vc
> ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau -mc 2 -softvol
> -softvol-max 200 -ass -fontconfig -fs -tskeepbroken -tsprobe 100000 "$1"
> -- :1 -config "/etc/X11/xorg.conf-vdpau" -depth 24 -ac -nolisten tcp -a 2
> 
> I'm using *gksudo* at the beginning because it's invoked from menu not
> from terminal and I'm using special xorg.conf with *composite* disabled
> where for my desktop I have *composite* enabled.
>