[MPlayer-users] Error occurring on q or >, not sure if mplayer or not

[stan]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:28:03 -0700
stan <RegBur_Flydan8 at q.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:12:05 +0000 (UTC)
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > stan <RegBur_Flydan8 <at> q.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > > While it would probably still be interesting to see the top 
> >                                                             ^^^
> > > > of the console output, consider testing with the proprietary
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >  
> > > > driver (that works fine here).
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Not an option for my old hardware.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity (and since I thought the Geforce 2 is still 
> > supported): Which hardware?
> > 
> > Could you confirm that -vo xv and -vo x11 work fine?
> > 
> > Carl Eugen
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  Both of these work, and they don't have
> the problem with quitting causing a seg fault.  The x11 version is
> locked at the original size, but xv allows full screen.  Great.
> Normally, I just let mplayer select the output video format.  Seems
> that isn't the best strategy.

Further experimentation shows that both have problems.  xv doesn't
allow adjustment of brightness or contrast.  x11 does but won't go full
screen.  Letting mplayer choose, full screen is possible and brightness
and contrast can be adjusted, with only the seg fault on quit as a
problem.