[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vo_vesa fixes for some cards

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:27:50 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> Aurelien Jacobs writes:
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:19:37 +0200
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sascha Sommer writes:
> > > > 
> > > > Noone objected and other devels agreed on IRC that you should
> > > > get cvs writte access. Please send a mail with login/initial
> > > > pass to arpi. Don't forget to read
> > > > DOCS/tech/code-documentation.txt and cvs-howto.txt Then you can
> > > > commit this patch yourself ;)
> > > 
> > > And maybe fix vo_vesa on my machine, i think it never worked
> > > correctly;)
> > 
> > You should first read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html ;-)
> 
> lol
> 
> NO!  I would find bugs and things I had always wanted to add and end
> up rewriting it.  This would take hours..

:-)

> > More seriously, what was the problem ?
> 
> If I start a movie with -vo vesa the screen goes black.  Switching to
> another console or to the console and back to X fixes this.  But the
> image that gets displayed is compressed vertically by about half and
> two pictures are shown side by side with a bit of space in between.

In the first place, you should try it with no X launched.

> > With what video card ?
> 
> Matrox G550 connected through DVI to a TFT monitor.

I use -vo vesa and -vo vesa:vidix sucessfully on a G550 ! I only have
a standard VGA cable though. I doubt it's due to DVI, but who knows ?

Aurel