[MPlayer-users] Question about r30489

[Giorgio]

2010/2/4 Giorgio <mywing81 at gmail.com>:
> 2010/2/3 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Giorgio wrote:
>>> But I was wondering, would it be possible to somehow hide the small
>>> window used for autodetection? If this could be done, it think it
>>> would be more elegant (of course, I know I can skip autodetection
>>> passing a value of yuv).
>>
>> I think it is possible, I just did not have the time, plus I couldn't
>> test it anyway (see next paragraph).
>> Do you actually notice it? And how much? On all systems I tested it
>> on (including a slow netbook and via VNC) I couldn't even see the
>> small window. Does this maybe depend on some configuration options?
>> If I could actually see that small window I could much easier create
>> a patch to hide it.
>
> Yes, the small windows appears and disappears very fast (I'd say it
> stay on the screen for about 0.25 seconds) but it still is noticeable.
> It might depend on configuration options, I'm not sure, I'll test this
> on other computers. Anyway, I have made a video so you can see with
> your eyes:
>
> http://mywing.altervista.org/mplayer/out.ogg
>
> (note: in this video the small window stays on the screen for like
> half a second or more, I think it depends on my system being a bit
> slow when acquiring the video)
>
> Moreover, I have noticed that when I use gmplayer with yuv suboption
> autodetection (-vo gl) the video has a wrong size, while skipping
> autodetection (-vo gl:yuv=2) gives the correct video size. Only
> gmplayer shows this behaviour, mplayer works fine. You can see this
> too on the video I have posted. Here are some more information about
> this:
>
> holden at rye:~/mtest$ gmplayer aneducation_h720p.mov -v -quiet -nomenu
> -frames 25 -vo gl > vogl 2>&1
> holden at rye:~/mtest$ gmplayer aneducation_h720p.mov -v -quiet -nomenu
> -frames 25 -vo gl:yuv=2 > voglyuv2 2>&1
>
> http://mywing.altervista.org/mplayer/vogl
> http://mywing.altervista.org/mplayer/voglyuv2
>
> holden at rye:~/mtest$ diff -u vogl voglyuv2
> --- vogl        2010-02-03 23:49:52.000000000 +0100
> +++ voglyuv2    2010-02-03 23:50:07.000000000 +0100
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
>  Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
>  Using built-in default codecs.conf.
>  Configuration: --enable-gui --enable-menu
> -CommandLine: 'aneducation_h720p.mov' '-v' '-quiet' '-nomenu'
> '-frames' '25' '-vo' 'gl'
> +CommandLine: 'aneducation_h720p.mov' '-v' '-quiet' '-nomenu'
> '-frames' '25' '-vo' 'gl:yuv=2'
>  init_freetype
>  Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
>  get_path('fonts') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/fonts'
> @@ -330,9 +330,6 @@
>  get_path('sub/') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/sub/'
>  [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
>  [gl] Using 0 as slice height (0 means image height).
> -[gl] GLX chose visual with ID 0x2f
> -[gl] Running on OpenGL by 'NVIDIA Corporation', versions '2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.12'
> -[gl] Settings after autodetection: ati-hack = 0, force-pbo = 0,
> rectangle = 0, yuv = 2
>  ==========================================================================
>  Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
>  INFO: libavcodec init OK!
> @@ -373,10 +370,7 @@
>  *** [vo] Exporting mp_image_t, 1280x544x12bpp YUV planar, 1044480 bytes
>  Unicode font: 4861 glyphs.
>  Unicode font: 4861 glyphs.
> -[gl] Resize: 1159x724
>  [h264 @ 0xceb720]no picture
> -Unicode font: 4861 glyphs.
> -Unicode font: 4861 glyphs.
>  EOF code: 1
>
>  Uninit audio filters...
>
>
> For some reason it seems to resize the window. If you need the video
> I've used in this test you can find it here:
>
> URL=$(mplayer -user-agent Quicktime -v -frames 0
> http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony/aneducation/aneducation_720p.mov
> 2>/dev/null | grep Filename | awk '{print $6}' | tail -n 1);
> file=$(echo $URL | sed -e 's/^.*\///'); mplayer -user-agent Quicktime
> -dumpstream "$URL" -dumpfile "$file"
>
> Thank you.
>
> Giorgio Vazzana
>

Oh, if I activate Desktop Effects (compiz) all those problems
disappear: no more small window and gmplayer works perfectly. I'm
using Ubuntu 8.04 64bit.