[MPlayer-users] -vo directx specify monitor

[Morris]

On 8/19/2011 1:51 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:14:01PM -0600, Roger Pack wrote:
>>> A couple years ago I was doing a lot of multi screen work and had to use the
>>> gl2 driver to fix this problem.  I was able to play back large files, up to
>>> 3072 pixels wide on a (fairly fast) machine to get 3 screens of 1024x768.
>>>   Not sure what performance will be with larger screen sizes, but the
>>> machines were pretty tame by today's standards.
>> Good to know (though gl/gl2 seem to always use 100% cpu on my box for
>> some reason, possibly another bug), at least there's a workaround :)
> Both sound like symptoms of the same issue: a really crappy graphics
> card.
> You might have better luck with -vo direct3d in that case (though
> I only experienced this kind of issue with S3 graphics, and honestly
> there isn't really anything they are good at).
> Oh, and you should also be able to use -vo directx:noacce

Yes, you are correct about  -vo directx:noaccel, I had forgotten about 
that fix.  However my experience was that the medicine was worse than 
the disease.  With no acceleration in directx, I had very few large 
files that would play smoothly.  I occasionally had a problem with the 
gl2 driver on laptops, but I would think that almost any video card less 
than two years old would work well nowadays.

I've never tried  -vo direct3d.  Maybe I'll take that out for a spin one 
of these days.

thanks,
morris

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