[MPlayer-dev-eng] xv fails with "Source image dimensions are too high"..

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2005/11/21, j at v2v.cc <j at v2v.cc>:
> Hi,
>
> mplayer refuses to play some HD videos i have on my laptop.
> it fails with:
> [xv] Source image dimensions are too high: 1920x1080 (maximum is 1440x1080)
>
> in ~/.mplayer/config i have
> vo=xv,x11
>
> since if i run mplayer -vo x11 HD.avi i can play the file,
> i would expect mplayer to try the next vo instead of quiting.
>
> does that sound reasonable? would it be easy to fix mplayer to do so?
>
> j

Have these files worked before changes made on Nov 10? (aka 1.0pre7)

If I am not wrong mplayer switch to next video output module when
preinit fails. Unfortunately at preinit time the decoders/parsers etc.
are not inited and dimensions are not know.
In other words, it would be hard to fix it.