[MPlayer-users] Optimize video output from tv card

[Michael]

Hmm, without the -fixed-vo option I haven't had any garbled video playback 
now for several hours. Maybe that's the cause.

So, I have nearly everything running. Great!

The only think I am still fighting with is the mplayer options. I want to 
position the video playback at 100,50 on a 800x600 screen. The video 
resolution should be 640x480. If the video is of a different size, I would 
like to resize it while keeping the original aspect ratio. Furthermore, if 
the resulting video is smaller than 640x480 it would be great if black 
borders would be added automatically.

I've tried nearly a hundred combinations of options. None delivered this. 
The one that came closest, was -screenw 640 -screenh 480 -fs . However, in 
this case -geometry 100:50 does no longer work, so the video is always on 
the topleft side.

More fancy stuff such as -geometry 100:50 -vf dsize=640:480:0,expand=640x480 
deliver not the expected result (mostly bigger video screens).

Does anybody know, what options would be best to attain the result I want?

Thanks again and cheers from Switzerland

Michael

Michael wrote:

> Thanks, I've got everything working now.
> 
> Python-SDL fortunately also works with X11. :-)
> 
> The only problem is that the nsc driver seems to be quite a bit buggy
> still. I infrequently get garbled video playback :-(
> 
> The screen then shows many several small copies of the video, all of them
> just in two colors (red and green).
> 
> So far I only see these problems when I am not fullscreen. But I need more
> test to find out where these come from.
> 
> Is the driver still actively maintained? Anybody knows who the developer
> is?
> 
> Thanks and best regards from Switzerland
> 
> Michael
> 
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:01:48PM +0200, Michael wrote:
>>> Now I just need to find some tutorials on how to access the X11 screen
>>> from python (as Mplayer shall only use about 80% of the screen, the rest
>>> shall be a scrolling text display).
>> 
>> May I recommend reading man mplayer, particularly the -geometry part?
>> 
>>> I also want to get rid of the xterm. Need to find out what I need it for
>>> at all. I see that I cannot simply start mplayer from xinit. It seems to
>>> need xterm.
>> 
>> No it doesn't. You _might_ need to use -noconsolecontrols and/or
>> redirect stdin/stdout.