[Mplayer-advusers] trouble with the -vm option

[Magnus Pfeffer]

Am Dienstag, 25. Juni 2002 01:13 schrieb Christian Ohm:

> hi.

Hi,

> i've tested your little circuit and have to say it works really well. and
> i've encountered the problem you described. i found two ways around it:
> the first is a patch to mplayer, that adds a -grabmouse option
> (grabmouse=0 in the config file) so mplayer doesn't grab the cursor
> anymore. and (by pure chance) it doesn't unpause when any key is pressed.

Do you also use the 4 modes I proposed in the original posting (2 PAL and 2 
NTSC)? A friend of mine found another problem with -vm when a mode smaller 
than the largest is used: As soon as any key is pressed, the viewport 
changes! I have no idea why this happens. 

> the second is a little program i called wctd (warp cursor to display) that
> just takes the desired display as argument (or the one set in DISPLAY) and
> moves the cursor to it. bind to some keys and move the cursor around as
> you like.

I will test it this evening.

> i hope that helps.

Me, too.

> bye
> christian ohm

Magnus