[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: to -fixed-vo or not to -fixed-vo

[Arwed von Merkatz]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:41:47PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> >>However, there's another bug that I'm fairly certain is in the Nvidia 
> >>driver or hardware. Whenever I play a movie wider than about 750 (in 
> >>other words, bigger than DVD size) with xv, I get junk on the right
> >>side of the frame. Perhaps somebody didn't think people would play
> >>movies larger than DVD. It appears that there's some kind of wrap
> >>around. If I play a really wide movie (like greater than 1000) the
> >>junk starts to appear on the left side of the frame. I get this using
> >>both MPlayer and Xine. However, if I use another mplayer vo, like x11,
> >>it is fine, though slow.
> >
> >Imho it can only be a bug of the nvidia driver. Or if it doesn't appears
> >with xine, it could be a bug (i would call it feature ;) in our vo_xv
> >implementation.
> 
> I think it probably is in the Nvidia driver, but it could be in XFree or 
> my particular hardware. If no one else sees it on Nvidia hardware, it 
> could my particular card, since it's a very cheap brand. Or, if others 
> see it on Nvidia hardware, but not on other hardware, it's probably the 
> driver. If everyone has this problem with Xvideo (which seems extremely 
> unlikely, since I haven't heard anyone else complain about it), it could 
> be XFree. What about you? Does large video work with "-vo xv"?
 
I have exactly the same problem with -vo xv and very large movies, it
appears in mplayer, xine, gstreamer and xmovie, so it's probably a
problem of the nvidia driver on tnt2 hardware.

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